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bug#21662: 25.0.50; visible-bell causes display artifacts on OS X 10.11


From: Mustafa Kocaturk
Subject: bug#21662: 25.0.50; visible-bell causes display artifacts on OS X 10.11
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 21:13:25 -0500

Hi,

The current implementation of the visual bell on NextStep is to cache and 
redraw a rectangle on the current Emacs frame *from outside the NextStep run 
loop*. It seems this was good enough so far but is no longer a particularly 
supported one for the latest Mac OS X version.
Maintaining it might still be possible, only with sufficient effort and caution.

Alternative: Switch to an implementation that is particularly supported in this 
release of OS X, as follows:
Create a temporary NSView object and attach it to the selected EmacsView object.
This new subview draws itself, starts an NSTimer, with a callback in the 
current NS run loop. 
When the timer expires the callback is entered, which updates, hides, and 
finally removes the subview from its superview.
The view is garbage collected, all as part of the NS run loop. 
The required change is small: Add a NSView-derived class in nsterm.m and 
replace old cache/draw/restore code with new temporary local instance of this 
new class.

Best regards,
Mustafa






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