From: Marcus Sundberg <e94_msu@elixir.e.kth.se>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Sun, 02 Aug 1998 23:56:49 +0200

Re: New event type of gwt-only event ?

> Rodolphe writes:
> 
> >  Boujour a tous,
> >  
> >  sooner or later (maybe in the middle :-), I will have to provide
> >  a new event type within libgwt. (GWT=Generic Windowing Toolkit, so
> >  you may guess that this event will be something like a WINDOW_EXPOSED
> >  event).
> 
> Such an event already exists in the devel repository: evExpose.
> At least the fbdev target generates it (on VT switch-back), I don't know
> about the X targets or whatever.  It includes (x,y) and (w,h) fields
> which say what part was exposed.

It's not currently in the X-targets, but I'll add support for it
when I have some spare time. The question is if we should use
backingstore if available? My suggestion is that Xlib-target
use it if it is available and the X-target does not.

Also I think it would be nice to have a "pause" button for the
DGA target which will "iconify" the DGA display and take the
user to the normal X-session. This should even allow one to run
several DGA applications at once.

Obviously an evExpose event will be generated on switch-back,
but have we decided how switch-aways will be handled?

//Marcus
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