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Hello Hugo,
PR> add. I would like to add support for writting to a window that is
PR> overlaped by another window (background window)... So far the only
PR> when writting to the actual screen I'll have to check every other
PR> window shown to see if it overlaps it...
hl> If you follow the order of the windows, starting with
hl> the screen background and ending with the window which
hl> has the context, you don't have to recalculate each
hl> windows visibilty. Use a buffer for the entire screen
hl> and show the end result when you're done moving the
hl> windows into it: what should be invisible, will've been overwritten.
Yes, but if you have say 5 windows open and are doing frequent updates to
underlying windows, It seems to me that it'd be pretty wastefull to re-draw
every single window... There must be a better (albiet more complicated)
way.
Paul Rider
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