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From: phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Phil Howard KA9WGN)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Fast redraw after expose events
Message-ID: <1991Apr9.192435.15177@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 9 Apr 91 19:24:35 GMT
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Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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gfreeman@csadfa.cs.adfa.oz.au (Graham Freeman) writes:

>We would like to create an off-screen pixmap in the server, so that 
>window expose events could be handled immediately using XCopyPlane, 
>say, rather than having to redraw the whole window from scratch.  
>However, resources on the server are often limited, and requesting 
>memory for the off-screen pixmap cannot be guaranteed to succeed.  
>Worse than that, attempts to obtain sufficient memory for the pixmap 
>when it is not available cause the client process to abort.

Yes, that is utterly annoying.  There needs to be a way to simply
find out if the resources are available.
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