Usage of setCurrentNodeLocked()

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Saturday 25 September 2010, Cyrille Berger wrote:
> There is an other issue with systemLocked, it locks the entire layer, even if 
> some area are now free for more processing. With a clever queue, it would be 
> possible to know on which area an action needs to process. For instance, if we 
> have a filter on the whole image and freehand stroke on a subpart of the 
> image, as soon as the filter is finished with the subpart of the image, it 
> will be possible to execute the freehand action, while the filter works on 
> other area (and with a clever scheduler, you can give priority to that 
> subpart).
> 
> Second point, actions queue is the best solution for collaborative editing, 
> since it would make collaborative editing as easy as adding an action on the 
> queue of the node as soon as it is received.
> 
> Now I agree with Boudewijn and Sven, visual feedback when drawing is 
> important, but it does not have to be accurate, for instance, for indirect 
> painting (and paintop that do not needs layer data), we could keep the 
> temporary layer and delay the merging, and for direct painting just show a 
> line that represents the stroke.

Ooh... Sounds tricky :-)

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