On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 05:57, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Lex Spoon wrote:
> 
> > > The primary problem is with resizing the world.  First of all, screen
> > > redraw seems to be very slow and "uncertain", this is even noticeable on
> > > a ~1.5GHZ system. 
> > 
> > The newest SourceForge sources may have fixed this. Could you try
> > recompiling with the newest source code?  Or, wait until the next Debian
> > packages come out, and try again?
> > 
> > The issue I have in mind was that HandleEvents() wouldn't always handle
> > all events.  This is a clever way to deal with primitives that poll the
> > current state instead of poll for events, but it's not useful in recent
> > images and it does have the problems like the one you mention.  
> > Nowadays HandleEvents() will handle all events that have arrived.
> 
> The window handling stuff could be cleaned up considerably. Currently,
> more resizes than necessary happen (although I think it works okay now).
> The problem is that a lot of things depend on each other here - the
> ioScreenSize call, going fullscreen, going back from fullscreen, browser
> plugin mode etc.
> 
> > > More importantly, resizing very often leads to a crash:
> > > 
> > > Segmentation fault
> 
> I thought that was fixed a long time ago. What VM are you using? What 
> Window Manager?
> 

As I mentioned, I tried a VM I built myself from a shasnap I downloaded
from the wiki in very early February, I have also tried a 4653 oss deb
that Lex has packaged up.  Both exhihibit the identical behaviour.  I'm
using Sawfish for my WM.

Ken

> -- Bert
> 
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