[Lazarus] Forms Color on Linux

Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.lists at gmail.com
Sun May 25 19:09:32 CEST 2008


2008/5/25 Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho <felipemonteiro.carvalho at gmail.com>:
> I don't know why double buffering was added in the discussion, it has
> nothing to do with the slowness of SynEdit under gtk2.
>
> Double buffering is simply a necessity to avoid flickering, and
> SynEdit is double buffered, regardless of the widgetset. It is not a
> vilain nor a magical solution for lcl-gtk2.

I'm not referring to SynEdit. I'm simply asking why all components in
the LCL are not double buffered by default? Yet the underlying
toolkits are by default.  What does LCL developers know that the rest
of us toolkit authors don't? ;-)

Regards,
 - Graeme -


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