[openglean-devel]"Floading" event queues with mouse motion.

[Richard R. <sf...@ol...>]

OpenGLUT has observed that some X servers can produce large numbers of
events in response to mouse motion.  OpenGLUT has proposed hiding most of
these events from the client to avoid "flooding" the client.  The suggested
case is an application that is drawing updated displays when the mouse move=
s.

The OpenGLEAN position is that almost all (one hesitates to say all) cases
can be handled by proper use of glutPostRedisplay().  Posting a redisplay is
cheap and throttles actual redrawing events.  Meanwhile, some programs may
defensibly want to know about the mouse position with as fine a granularity
as the window system will provide.

Unless a clearer case is made for dropping mouse events, OpenGLEAN will
not take up the changes that OpenGLUT has been discussing.

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