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From: devin@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Yampalimardilor)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Animated images under X11
Keywords: screenload, shared pixmaps, images, bitmaps
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Date: 28 Feb 90 18:34:00 GMT
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In article <227@roo.UUCP> janssen@parc.xerox.com (Bill Janssen) writes:
!The MIT X11R4 server already has a `shared memory' extension that
!allows a program to create pixmaps that are shared between the client
!and the application.  The application can write into the pixmap array
!directly, then tell the server to do a CopyArea from it, resulting in
!a very fast operation.  We've used it to good effect here already.

 Isn't the client and the application the same thing?  If not, how do I
do this?  I need very fast XCopyAreas also...

!
!Bill
!--
! Bill Janssen        janssen.pa@xerox.com      (415) 494-4763
! Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
! 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, California   94304

 -Devin