Good idea; that should do the trick. Thanks for the help.
On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 10:46, Scott Smedley wrote:
> 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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