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From: kmtaylor@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM (Keith M Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: UWM network use followup
Message-ID: <3110@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM>
Date: 21 Mar 89 16:37:07 GMT
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Reply-To: kmtaylor@hplabsz.UUCP (Keith M Taylor)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
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In article <8903200443.AA21539@jumbo.pa.dec.com> msm@SRC.DEC.COM (Mark S. Manasse) writes:
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>Using PointerMotionHint solves all the synchronization problems, 
>but it does cost you a little in performance.
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Maybe I don't understand PointerMotionHint. It seems to me that 
granularity is too coarse.  You only get a MotionNotify when some
other (button, key, leave window) event occurs. If you want to
do drawing that tracks the cursor, you're back to polling.

Keith M. Taylor