From: Patrick Lam (plam@plam.lcs.mit.edu)
Date: Sat Aug 03 2002 - 16:43:34 EDT
On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 11:46:29AM +0100, Tomas Frydrych wrote:
>
> Martins doubts about my suggestion to move the cursor timer into a
> separate thread made me go back and study the spell checking
> problem bit more, and it turned out that the problem was not with the
> timer per se being blocked, but elsewhere in
> fl_BlockLayout::_doCheckWord, which I have now fixed.
>
> Enjoy orderly cursor blinking.
That's cool. But I still think the cursor code really sucks, because
it's really ad-hoc and not abstracted. I think it should be fixed in
a more general way with threads.
pat
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