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Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] Re: zoom
From: Karl-Ingo Friese <kif@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 08:51:01 +0100 (CET)

On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Jason Dorje Short wrote:

> - Scaling the pixmaps when you first try to zoom is questionable.  At
> first I thought I was pressing the wrong button.  Other options would be
> (1) scaling during startup (2) spawning a separate thread on startup to
> do the scaling (GTK can use threads, I'm told).  OTOH, if you never use
> zoom then this would just waste your time.  (It takes over 10 seconds to
> scale on my machine, a intel P3/450.)  Alternately, some sort of popup
> dialog window ("Scaling Pixmaps...") would be nice here.

I found the best solution by now. Seriousely speeding up the whole
process ;) Still on it ... but already about factor 4.

Ingo

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Karl-Ingo Friese
kif@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



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