nanogui@linuxhacker.org

Subject: Re: Reading and Displaying a Bitmap at runtime
From: Gary James
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 17:02:26 -0500


Greg Haerr wrote:

> : Greg is finally going to look
> : at improving the X11 drivers.  
> 
> I've fixed the insanely slow drawing that occurs with all bitmaps
> using the X screen driver.  However, the image routines are
> still not enhanced yet.  That wasn't the biggest problem.  The
> bug in the X driver was that XAllocColor() was being called
> hundreds of thousands of times for every pixel in a bitmap,
> for truecolor displays....  That slowed down image display
> greatly.  Now the system computes the truecolor pixel
> value based on the selected X Visual...
> 
> This will be released soon, I'm still integrating the tons of
> additions that Alex has just sent me...

Sounds like you ought to get Alex a set of keys to drive CVS himself if 
he doesn't already have a set :)

I'm really glad that you found that X11 speed problem. I'm looking 
forward to the next release.

gary

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