Just for the record: Hibernate/Unhibernate takes roughly the same time as to recompute a drop show for 2546 at 1392. It reduces the form's bits size to about 0.004 % because most of the shadow form are zeros. Thus, the would be only a small gain to choose "hibernate" over "discard".

Not sure about all the BitBlt magic, but we could split the shadow form into multiple forms to reduce memory load. Yet, last time I checked, it took much longer so blit many forms for the shadow instead of one.

Best,
Marcel
Am 20.02.2018 19:19:05 schrieb tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org>:
With some playing around with shadow related preferences and theme options it looks like there are some rather oddinteractions buried in there.

Turn on soft shadows from Extras-'Themes & Colors' and then pick a window. In its halo menu pick 'drop shadow'-'shadow offset' and move the indicator around. If I move it to the ~20 pixels range I see a strange mix of soft and hard shadow not to mention some 'interesting' visuals if I try to get shadows to the left of the window.

tim
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