[Freeciv-Dev] gtk client speedup

[Karl-Ingo Friese <kif@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello there,

I implemented a short speedup of the gtk client. At the beginning
of each turn, the player dialog is updated once per player, causing
a significant 2-5 second freeze to slower machines. The solution is
the same as already implemented for the message window and report
dialogs, by adding the functions plrdlg_update_delay_on and
plrdlg_update_delay_off to the plrdlg.c file and calling them
at the "handle_before_new_year" / "handle__new_year" events.
Since I did the (few) changes against the 1.11 client, here is a
short text overview instead of a diff-patch.

Have fun,
Ingo

Changes:

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client/include/plrdlg_g.h:
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add

   void plrdlg_update_delay_on(void);
   void plrdlg_update_delay_off(void);

at the beginning.


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client/gui-gtk/plrdlg.c:
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add

   int delay_plrdlg_update=0;

   /******************************************************************
    Turn off updating of player dialog
   *******************************************************************/
   void plrdlg_update_delay_on(void)
   {
     delay_plrdlg_update=1;
   }

   /******************************************************************
    Turn off updating of player dialog
   *******************************************************************/
   void plrdlg_update_delay_off(void)
   {
     delay_plrdlg_update=0;
   }

at the beginning. Change the beginning of the function
"update_players_dialog" from 
   
   if(players_dialog_shell) {

to 

   if(players_dialog_shell && !delay_plrdlg_update) {


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client/packhand.c
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add the line

  plrdlg_update_delay_on();

to the function "handle_before_new_year". Add the lines

  report_update_delay_off();
  update_report_dialogs();

to the function "handle_new_year".

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Thats it.