Re: [g-a-devel] comosite based magnifier design

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

Hi Carlos:

Thanks for this information.  I thought that COMPOSITE would already 
allow the redirection you spoke of, so it's interesting to hear that 
this is a new feature.  I think we are thinking along the same lines now.

Best regards,

Bill

Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diogenes wrote:

> Hi Bill,
>
> I was reading some messages in the Xorg list about what is need to 
> finish the composite extension. Somethings are very interesting.
>
> When I talked about all that logic, it was because composite (now) 
> doesn't have a way to you say something like this: "please redirect 
> the root window to off-screen and include all it's child, except my 
> magnification screen", but what I saw there is that we will be able to 
> do it, so the problem to capture the screen becomes simple.
>
> I'm excited, because this is what I wanted when I first start to think 
> about an magnification program, but don't have the expertise to do.
>
> Thanks,
> Carlos.