Re: Pixmap based animation in Gtk+

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 11:08 +0000, Alberto Ruiz wrote:
> 2009/2/4 Hagen Schink <hagen schink st ovgu de>:
> > Hello devel list,
> >
> > some weeks ago I wrote an email regarding "Animation in Gtk+" to the mailing list. I used the passed time to implement the stated idea. Here is a video of the first results:
> 
> > http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=793477820753124601
> 
> I can't believe my eyes! I'm blogging this straight away.
> 
> > The implementation so far is more a "proof of concept" and there are still enough problems to solve but I think it can already be a basis for further discussion on this topic. That is why I opened a bug report [1] and published a patch together with a small explanation and a simple test application.
> 
> I wonder if you can avoid the composite requirement with Alexander
> Larsson's work? Alex?

The offscreen stuff is a bit bitrotted at the moment, but yes,
eventually you'd be able to do this without composite.