Re: backing store and generating metacode without plotting window

To: mac@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Mark Collier)
Subject: Re: backing store and generating metacode without plotting window
From: beland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 17:21:39 -0500 (EST)
Cc: ferret_users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <Pine.SGI.3.95.961204090526.25263A-100000@atmos.dar.CSIRO.AU> from "Mark Collier" at Dec 4, 96 09:12:15 am
Sender: owner-ferret_users

> 
> Is it possible to turn on "backing store" with ferret, so that the
> drawing window does not need to be refreshed everytime the window
> is moved or uncovered, and will allow it to be iconised?
> Is it possible to create metacode output without drawing to an
> X window? I assume the rendering process can be time consuming but
> suspect that a dump is made of the window to create a bitmap.

Write "set mode refresh" in your $HOME/.ferret file.  It will be
executed each time ferret is run.

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References:
- backing store and generating metacode without plotting window
  - From: Mark Collier

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