Good idea; that should do the trick. Thanks for the help. On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 10:46, Scott Smedley wrote: > Hi Rusty, > > : The problem I get is that I'd like to use Tavis Ormandy's excellent > : thumbnail creation code. This takes two seconds to run on my machine, > : so my thought was to do it in the background - actually, to do it behind > : the other Window. > > I'm not sure I have the ideal solution for you, however: > > The thumbnailing operation can be split into 2 parts: > 1. immediate actions > 2. deferred actions > > Immediate actions would be stuff like raising the window, grabbing > a screenshot & then iconifying the window. > > The deferred stuff (which takes most of the processing time) encompasses: > recording the current icon image, creating the thumbnailed icon image, > setting the icon image to the new thumbnail. > > All the deferred stuff can be done in a script & Exec'ed. Communication > with FVWM (in the script) would be trivial with FvwmCommand. > > Once FVWM does the Exec it's no longer waiting (for PipeReads) & > hopefully it will all appear much more responsive. > > SCoTT. :) > -- > Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL: http://www.fvwm.org/>. > To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a > message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
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