On Wednesday 04 April 2001 16:19, Juergen Vigna wrote:
> On 04-Apr-2001 Angus Leeming wrote:
>
> > perhaps this isn't very useful, but I seem to remember Warwick Allison
wrote
> > a qspritefield class in Qt to address just this type of problem. Ie, most
of
> > the view remains invarient but some section moves. In your case the
quadrants
> > of the table not including the active row/cell are not changed, but they
just
> > translate. It seems really sad that all calculations regarding their
> > redrawing must be repeated.
> >
> > Ok, I know that this would be very sophisticated rendering, but is it
totally
> > unfeasible?
>
> Well I wouldn't say unfeasible just "hard to realize". But that's the
> way we have to go for the ultimate performance. For now I just do what
> I can do to make it faster.
;-) Sure
However, if there any Qt boffiins out there who think that we should change
to Qt for the default GUI, this is the first real example I can think of of
why Qt would be useful. As opposed to just pretty.
Pure flame bait of course!
Angus (who's had a good day at work and is feeling obnoxiously smug and who
furthermore enjoyed Henner's reminder of these little signatures!)
