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. :)
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Received on Mon Jul 05 2004 - 10:52:55 BST