[cairo] standalone glitztest

[Rogelio Serrano]

On 2004-07-13 13:20:49 +0800 Jon Smirl <jonsmirl at yahoo.com> 
wrote:

> Compositing requires that the applications draw into offscreen 
> buffers.
> These buffers are then composited to the main window by the 
> server. So,
> each application thinks it has a full window in this model. The
> application windows are never clipped when they are drawn.
> 
> The central server then takes these windows and composes the 
> main
> display screen. This is normally done doubled buffered. The 
> back buffer
> is used for composing and then a page flip is done to the 
> front buffer.
> 

Thats what im trying to create.

> The problem with this is that we haven't implemented drawing to
> offscreen buffers (pbuffers and render-to-texture) in mesa 
> yet. These
> are being worked on but they aren't finished.
> 

can we use osmesa to emulate this?

> With what you have you can implement a normal windowing 
> system. In a
> normal system each application paints directly into the 
> display buffer.
> Sample-server implements parts of this but not all. So for 
> each window
> sample server set a clip region that protects other parts of 
> the
> screen. Then it tells the app to paint. When the app paints it 
> can only
> impact it's own part of the screen.
> 

I understand. I will help test pbuffers then.

> Glitz doesn't really help you with any of this. Glitz is a 2D 
> drawing
> API, not a windowing system. Both the application and window 
> manager
> are free to use glitz for drawing, but glitz won't help you 
> with windowing.
> 

I see. I thought glitz does the compositing. I intend to build 
a window system that does compositing actually. something that 
will be portable to pbuffers when its ready.

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> Jon Smirl
> jonsmirl at yahoo.com
> 
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