Don't toolkits using many (sub-)windows hurt composite?

[jacky]

What about the widget which is bigger than parent
window?
Will they use a separate pixmap?

--- Aaron Plattner <aplattner at nvidia.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 11:46:44AM +0200, Clemens
> Eisserer wrote:
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > As far as I know there are 2 different way (maybe
> even more ;) ) to
> > design a toolkit from ground up. Only request one
> top level window and
> > do all layouting/repainting stuff yourself or use
> X11' sub-windows, so
> > X11 handles clipping, event delevery, repainting
> for your.
> > As far as I know the second approach is the one
> X11 was more or less
> > "designed" for and is used by GTK and some other
> toolkits. (Well GTk
> > uses a mixed modell).
> > 
> > I wonder how the "x11 subwindow model" could be
> mapped efficiently to
> > an X server which runs a composition manager? I
> ran gftp with a
> > modified gtk version (which allocates a pixmap per
> window instead of
> > each repaint) and the result where 15mb of pixmaps
> allocated for a
> > maximized window (1024x680) and its subwindows.
> According to "xrestop"
> > Eclipse itself consists of 315 sub-windows, so I
> assume about 30-60mb
> > of pixmaps.
> > 
> > As far as I understand when running a composition
> manager the content
> > of each window is stored in pixmaps - however when
> using sub-windows
> > most of of these pixmaps are quite likely hidden
> by other sub-windows.
> > 
> > Are there special techniques to avoid this
> problem. Are there any
> > recommandations how toolkits should be designed
> nowdays?
> > 
> > Thank you in advance, lg Clemens
> 
> Hi Clemens,
> 
> Unless some of the subwindows use a 32-bit visual
> and others don't, the whole
> window tree will be redirected into a single pixmap.
> 
> -- Aaron
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