From: "André Pönisch" <Andre@...>
Date: 2004-10-23T02:14:16+09:00
Subject: Re: FxRuby: understanding synthetic events

Lyle Johnson wrote:
> Andr� P�nisch wrote:
> 
>> When is an event synthetic
>> and when not?
> 
> A "synthetic" event is one generated by the FOX event loop and not the
> operating system's windowing environment. 
> [...]

Thanks for the detailed answer.
I already imagined something like that.

Only something confuses me: I have inserted an output in the if-block and
the appropriate else-block as a trial to see if the event synthetic. The
result was that every refresh (also initiated from windowing system) as
synthetic was notified. So every optimization would be senseless in this
direction.
Is this a error between Fox and Windows? I use Windows XP.

> FXRuby is probably as good as any other GUI toolkit for doing 2-D
> animations, but that's not really what it was designed for. If you can
> be more specific about what kind of application you have in mind that
> might help people advise you on other options.

I plan nothing special, this are only experiments. I would like only simple
2-D animations to got such as an analogue watch at the moment.

Ciao
Andr�