Re: [Vimplugin-devel] Double Buffering

[Sebastian M. <seb...@un...>]

Am Donnerstag, den 29.03.2007, 14:50 -0400 schrieb Scott Thompson:
> I have implemented double buffering, but the implementation slows the
> reaction time of the application by about half-a-second, and is now
> almost as annoying as the flickering. I'm looking into making the code
> more efficient, but I may run into issues because of the way the
> terminal class interacts with the application. 

What OS are you using? I'm on Ubuntu/Gnome. I had the flickering too,
but it went away with the implementation of 

> //put the terminal into a AWT-Panel to avoid flickering
>     Panel panel = new Panel(new BorderLayout()) {
>       public void update(java.awt.Graphics g) {
>         /* Do not erase the background */
>         paint(g);
>       }
>     };

So no flickering here ...

> I'm assuming the decision to use AWT was for a specific reason? Are
> you opposed to moving to a different Graphical Toolkit?

Its the SwingTerminal of the JTA library. To avoid that, one would have
to implement a SWTTerminal for JTA. JTA is OpenSource but it seems it's
not actively developed anymore...

Sebastian.