[Scummvm-devel] ATTN porters: updateScreen() OSystem method

[Max Horn]

Am 19.04.2006 um 01:21 schrieb Paul Gilbert:

> I may be missing something obvious, but if the backend is going to be
> responsible for keeping track of the time and only actually doing
> updates every X milliseconds, then couldn't the backend just call
> updateScreen() doing the event generation?

Not really. After all, an engine may not call OSystem::pollEvent for  
an extended time period either. But the engine can't do anything if  
it isn't given any computation time. So the engines must somehow give  
the engine a chance to regularly spend some CPU time. Which means  
some backend method must be called frequently (threads are not an  
option, since some of our targets systems don't have them). And that  
function shouldn't be pollEvent, because any even polled that way is  
removed from the even code, so any code calling it must be prepared  
to actually deal with the even, which may not be easily possible in  
every spot where we'd call updateScreen...


Cheers,
Max