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From: soh@shiva.trl.oz (kam hung soh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: I need Help with the A3000!
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Date: 31 Jul 90 05:18:03 GMT
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In article <6091@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>I didn't say graphics were a bug. I said X was a bug. Not only is it big, but
>it's primitive. ALL the windows are SIMPLEREFRESH! And putting window
>management in the application program is just plain *sick*. It's like making
>the STDIO library do erase and kill processing.

Duuh ... don't want to start a big argument, but I believe all X
applications have to cater for a redraw in case the X server cannot
find enough backing store to save the obscured part of the window.
Sure, it's a real pain doing your own redraw; if your friendly system
operator can optimise the server, fine.  Else, you have to provide
redraw facilities.

Soh, Kam Hung      email: h.soh@trl.oz.au     tel: +61 03 541 6403 
Telecom Research Laboratories, P.O. Box 249, Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia