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Add "glass pane" support #8

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Add support for a transparent panel which sits above the normal panel which can 
have text with a different resolution (and font size).

Original issue reported on code.google.com by yam...@gmail.com on 6 Jul 2012 at 1:32

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
There appears to be an issue related to the fact that we use blocking to wait 
for the AWT thread to finish touching our data structures.

Specifically, as it is written, with a Glass Pane, we would ask for one pane to 
be displayed, two panes get calls for repaint, and we would need to wait for 
both of them to be updated before we could continue.

Will both of them always get calls for repainting? Maybe. Will the order they 
get called be consistent? No idea.

Now, this whole process gets a whole lot simpler if the AWT thread had its own 
copy of the AWT grid that was totally separate from the Terminal grid. Instead 
of tweaking data structures, we'd be adding commands in to a queue that would 
be processed at paint-time.

More than that, the command-based structure could be seen as a first-step 
before we get our own display update protocol (a la xterm, ansi, etc).

So this is slipping.

Original comment by yam...@gmail.com on 6 Jul 2012 at 8:51

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Original comment by yam...@gmail.com on 6 Jul 2012 at 9:03