re animation with xputimage in article nrao edu rgooch rp csiro au richard gooch writes the mit tapes come with documentation written by keith packard on the shared memory extension to x look in mit doc extensions mit shm ms i found this invaluble unfortunately there is a bit of work to set up the shared memory segments making an ximage from it etc also there is an extension query to determine if the server supports it but you still need to test if the server is running on the same host and if shared memory is enabled in the kernel i have written layers of convience routines which make all this transparent as for the xview code well i doubt that would be considered interesting the interesting stuff is done in a c object library people interested in this code can email me regards richard gooch rgooch atnf csiro au thanks for docs info it turns out that if i leave out colormap updates between frames and use tvtwm my tests with x x frames on an ipx using the server resident pixmap method give an astonishing frames per second and very smooth i think i ve found the best solution thanks to the generous help on this group however i may have colormap questions later derek derek c richardson tel x institute of astronomy fax cambridge u k cb ha e mail dcr mail ast cam ac uk
