[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [gui-fs] New backend

[Raimar Falke <i-freeciv-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 10:25:02PM +0100, Raimar Falke wrote:
> 
> [ Since RT doesn't work yet I use freeciv-dev. ]
> 
> I haven't got the time in the last weeks to work on the FS
> client. However I made some progress on the optimization problem.
> 
> The solution is to do all the rendering at the client side. Only if
> the screen needs updates the client sends it version to the
> server. For this I created a independent image format and coded the
> required drawing primitives. All the rendering is done in 24bit and
> 900 lines. The rendering code looks quite similar to
> gui-sdl/graphics.c.
> 
> Backends which support only 8bit or paletted mode likely can't use
> it. However backends for with 16bit or 24bit output can use it. So the
> size of implementation of the real backend is decreased quite a
> lot. It only needs to do event handling and converting the 24bit image
> to the output screen format. The x11-ximage implementation is 290
> lines.
> 
> The speed is now acceptable but it good be larger.
> 
> So I hope I can now continue with some more user visible
> changes. *wink at Morgan*

To prevent misunderstandings. The terms "server" and "client" in the
above are server and client in X11 speak.

        Raimar

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