On 17-Mar-97 Steve Lamont wrote:
>Yes, it can. The signal and IO select mechanism allow you to respond
>in near real time to most any external events as long as you aren't
>tying up the X server with huge requests such as manipulating large
>Pixmaps. If you're shipping a lot of large images around, you may
Great, that is what I wanted to hear. If this was a non-Xforms project
signal & select would be exactly how I would do it so I'm glad to hear there
are similar ways with Xforms. I don't expect to be pushing around big pixmaps,
maybe a map of individual small ones, but I would expect that the user wouldn't
notice that communication to the game server was slowed if they were busy
scrolling a map.
>> Is this possible with XForms without unreasonable amounts of work?
>
>Depends upon what you consider "unreasonable," I guess. :-) I'd say
>that things are pretty straightforward.
Sounds like it, thanks for the pointers.
Marisa
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