From: Tomas Frydrych (tomas@frydrych.uklinux.net)
Date: Fri Aug 02 2002 - 16:54:52 EDT
Martin sent this to me privately, but I think this needs to go to the list,
it raises an important issue -- I hope Martin does not mind.
> HI Tomas,
> Think this through very very carefully. I'm not saying it can't be
> done
> but it is not obvious to me right now. The issue is cursor dirt. If
> the cursor is on (black) and a clearScreen is called over the cursor
> then it gets set to white even though the internal state says it's
> black. Then if the blink thread XOR's it now it will turn to black
> even though the cursor's internal state says it should be white.
>
> What is even worse is if the clear screen stops after clear the first
> set of vertical pixels. Now the cursor is half white, half back and no
> matter what, it looks funny and your guarenteed to get pixel dirt.
>
> Getting rid of cursor dirt was a real pain, I worry that putting the
> blink into a seperate thread will mess it all up.
>
I do not want the change the actual way the cursor behaves, only
put the timer which fires it into a separate thread so that it fires
every 500 ms and does not get blocked by some other timer. That's
all.
I had a look at Mike's cursor class; it looks very good, but it would
mean to rip the whole cursor code up, and that's not something I
personnally want to do just now.
Tomas
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