 Animation with XPutImage?
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Hi, I'm new to this group so please bear with me!

Two years ago I wrote a Sunview application for fast animation
of raster files. With Sunview becoming rapidly obselete, I've
finally decided to rewrite everything from scratch in XView.
I put together a quick test, and I've found that XPutImage
is considerably slower  than the
Sunview command pw_rop which moves image data from memory
pixrects to a canvas. This was on a Sparc IPX. It seems that:
 the X protocol communication is slowing things down; or
 XPutImage is inefficient...or both! My question is, what
is the fastest way in X11R5 to dump 8 plane image data to
a window? Can I take advantage of the fact that the client is
running on the same machine as the server? Or am I stuck with
XPutImage ?

All help appreciated...thanks!

Derek

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