[GRASS-dev] xganim: fix compilation or remove completely?

Markus Neteler neteler at osgeo.org
Sun Dec 22 04:15:13 PST 2013


On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Glynn Clements
<glynn at gclements.plus.com> wrote:
>
> Vaclav Petras wrote:
>
>> The only question is if wxpyimgview is as fast as wximgview. Speed
>> is the only reason why they exists, isn't it?
>
> Not really. A fundamental property of those programs is that they will
> dynamically update the display whenever the image file changes.
>
> For display commands which take a while to execute, updates can
> continue during the drawing process.
>
> This was a significant reason for supporting memory-mapped images:
> once the file has been created, it remains valid even while being
> modified.

Naive question:
is this technology also used for the "wx0" etc monitor which is rather slow?

Markus


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