Survex 0.95 prerelease 7 and xcaverot's rubber band.

[Olly Betts]

In message <20001027104553.H4554@mrs30.quns.cam.ac.uk>, Mark Shinwell writes:
>On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 10:38:28AM +0100, Olly Betts wrote:
>> In message <39F94BBC.97EF62A4@uts.edu.au>, Michael Lake writes:
>> >Olly Betts wrote:
>> >> Aven avoids this problem by purging the event queue - Xcaverot should
>> >> probably do the same.
>> 
>> Thinking some more, rather than purging the queue it probably ought to read
>> out any pending events (mouse movements, key presses, etc) and apply them
>> all before redrawing.
>
>However, I tried that (in addition to quite a lot of variations) and under
>GTK it's just too slow.

I was actually thinking of xcaverot.  But any idea why it is too slow with
GTK?  I have trouble visualising what could take the time.

>The code there at the moment is vulgar, but at least
>it works (but may not with future GTK+ releases).

That's a non-issue at present, since aven won't compile with the gtk-- 1.2
C++ bindings anyway (prod prod).

Cheers,
Olly