Re: Emacs and Gnome Canvas

[Jan Djärv]

Eli Zaretskii skrev 2010-07-15 10.40:
> > Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:53:21 +0200
> > From: Jan Djärv<address@hidden>
> > CC: Óscar Fuentes<address@hidden>,
> >   address@hidden
> >
> > And besides this, you would have to have a GnomeCanvas per Emacs window.
>
> Window or frame?  It sounds like the canvas supports tree-like
> objects, and Emacs windows on every frame are organized in a tree.


You could do that, but then Canvas native scrolling could not be used (think 
split windows).  Maybe it can't be used anyway, I don't know if its native 
scrolling relies on having the whole data rendered.  This would take a lot of 
memory for big buffers.

        Jan D.