Documentation?

[McDonald, Michael-p7438c]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: xorg-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org 
> [mailto:xorg-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of Mark Wagner
> Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 4:15 PM
> To: Peter Harris
> Cc: xorg at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: Re: Documentation?
> 
> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 15:37, Peter Harris 
> <pharris at opentext.com> wrote:
> > Mark Wagner wrote:
> >>
> >>, such as drawing images?  One of the big things I
> >> need to update is the toolkit's image-handling code: right now, a
> >> simple JPEG splashscreen takes seven seconds to draw.

> I believe the slow part is a million calls to XAllocColor(). 

Ahh, that's what's going on in my code I wrote last week. I was writing a quick demo program using Xaw and tried to use the display list stuff to load a XPM image into some of the label widgets. In my case, one image takes approximately 20 seconds while the second image takes over a minute! The worked fast once they were used once.

I gave up and wrote some code to load a PPM image into a Pixmap. Took about 30 minutes to write. There is no noticable delay in loading either image now. Of course I'm cheating. I have 24bit images going into a 24bit true color visual.

Anyway, if you can control the image format that's being loaded, don't be scared off from rolling your own code.

Mike McDonald