[LyX/master] Add "full" drawing strategy
Richard Kimberly Heck
rikiheck at gmail.com
Wed Jun 12 00:09:03 UTC 2024
On 6/11/24 12:06, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> Le 11/06/2024 à 17:44, Richard Kimberly Heck a écrit :
>> On 6/11/24 09:36, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>>> The point is to offer a mode where the screen is redrawn fully every
>>> time (only the drawing, not the metrics computation). The
>>> performance seems quite reasonable to me, actually.
>>
>> I assume it is otherwise safe?
>
> This is what I assume too :) All it does is to add the
> Update::ForceDraw flag to force a full redraw. So it goes through
> known drawing mechanisms to do its thing.
>
>>> Having a proper UI for it would be great, but I am procrastinating
>>> on that.
>>
>> What's our policy on preference updates? (I can't remember.) Do we
>> care if a preference file saved with 2.4.1 cannot be used with 2.4.0?
>
> This is a good question. As it is, it will fall back to the default
> value ("partial" if supported, "backingstore" otherwise) if it does
> not understand the value that was given (I just checked).
OK, go ahead.
Riki
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