[Xastir-dev] feasibility of extra drawing threads?

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Sat, 25 Sep 2004, Gerry Creager N5JXS wrote:

> Aha!  So when I proposed this a couple of years ago and confused Curt, I 
> wasn't completely crazy?

Well, waiting for the map redraw is annoying when you're coming up on an 
interchange and want to see what's there.

Really, if there were ways to tell a thread to draw a map of scale blah 
centered at blah into a pane, and a way to swap that pane as the active 
one, i could write the glue to make the predictive crap work.


> :-))
>
> Gerry
>
> Derrick J Brashear wrote:
>> As I was moving across Ohio at highway speed, and zoomed to level 16 on a 
>> set of 1:24k USGS DRGs, I had a thought: a predictive drawing thread or 
>> threads which prepared what would be the next screen image if the 
>> autopanning moved you in the direction the cursor is most likely to go off 
>> the screen in next.
>> 
>> I can probably do the math to figure out what we should be drawing and by 
>> when, I don't think I can figure out how to draw an alternate image into an 
>> alternate pane. how feasible is this?
>> 
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