Garry; On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 08:09:27PM -0400, Garry R. Osgood wrote: > Marc Lehmann wrote: > > > On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 01:16:39PM -0400, Tom Rathborne <tomr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > At SIGGRAPH I saw "Corel Network Painter" or something like that > > > in action. Basically there were a bunch of people all painting > > > on the > > > > Something like emacs' opening multiple views on different > > DISPLAY's? > > > > Can gtk+ do that? > > One display server-specific thing that gets built into a particular > compilation of GTK+-1.2.8 are choices about Xinput implementation, > via the GTK--xinput configuration switch. Not sure how events sort > out when one instance of GTK is faced with different flavors of > Xservers with different tablet drivers that map their valuators into > XEvents differently. I don't think that emacs has to deal with > anything beyond core pointers and keyboards and is insulated from > the XInput morass. What? You can't use multiple pressure-sensitive styluses in emacs? I'm surprised ... I thought emacs did everything. > Tom? What was the mix of hardware? Or were all the platforms > uniform? It was in the CAL and I think it was a cluster of Windows machines... or Macs ... or a mix. I didn't walk all the way around the cluster. Oops. I didn't look very closely at how it was working, but it appeared to me that it was actually a full copy of Network Painter per machine and they were "sharing" the image somehow. That is, I think painting and filters were calculated on the client side. Of course I have nothing with which to back up that supposition. People just seemed to have realtime feedback on their own machines. I have no idea how it handled locking/serialization. The users didn't need to know and were enjoying their group paint session. There was even a text chat window where they were discussing the image. In any case I think our question needs to be "how would it work best for the GIMP?". I think a "network tile source" would make sense. Another argument for abstracting the tile system from GEGL? *grin* Cheers, Tom -- -- Tom Rathborne tomr@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.aceldama.com/~tomr/ -- "We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears." -- -- Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld
