From: Marcus Sundberg <mackan@stacken.kth.se>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 21:29:29 +0000

Re: SYNC mode should go

becka@rz.uni-duesseldorf.de wrote:
> 
> Hi !
> 
> > > > But the only correct solution is for applications that doesn't
> > > > continously update the framebuffer to listen for the ggi_expose_event,
> > > > which we should make the X-targets emit properly.
> > > Okay, good.  ... Except, wouldn't you need to listen for the corresponding X
> > > event in a separate thread?  Maybe not ... I'm not really familiar enough
> > > with X programming to speak with much authority on this particular matter.
> > No. Why do you think that would be needed?
> 
> Because LibGGI doesn't require you to go into some kind of event loop.
>
> So it depends a bit on definition. If we just post a regular expose_event,
> this is more or less unnecessary (at least for the X target), because the
> target itself could redraw, then.

??? ;-)
You either poll for the expose events, in which case you will
recieve them, or you don't poll and don't recieve them.
In neither case a separate thread makes any difference.

//Marcus
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