[ddraw] asynchronous screen updates

[Piotr Pawlow]

If DGA is not available, Wine falls back to creating offscreen primary surface 
and blitting all changes to the screen. It knows which part of the surface 
might have changed by watching unlock calls.

However, as Jukka Heinonen pointed out in his message posted on 17.10.2001, 
the update logic in asynchronous mode (when SYNC_UPDATE is not defined, which 
is the default) is broken: "(...)if more than one lock/unlock pair happens 
between update thread blits, display might not be updated correctly". 
Synchronous mode on the other hand, causes applications, which constantly 
lock and unlock big areas just to change a few pixels, run very slow.

As this bug prevents me from playing "Warlords: Battlecry", I decided to do 
something about it.

Here are my changes:

- User_add_dirty_rect is now an asynchronous equivalent of 
User_copy_to_screen. It adds the rectangle to the list of dirty rectangles 
and signal the update thread that there is some work to do.
- update thread calls User_get_dirty_rect to iterate over the list of dirty 
rectangles
- current "naïve" algoritm keeps only one rectangle which is a union of all 
dirty rectangles, so it tends to redraw too much, but better algoritms may be 
implemented
- removed now unused lastlockrect variable, and the code which updates it

I attached the patch for your reviews, comments, suggestions.

The game is almost playable now, there are remaining issues with DirectMusic 
(must be run with NODIRECTMUSIC switch or crashes) and windows managers (kwin 
cannot raise the window, metacity complains that the window attributes do not 
make sense).

-- 
 Piotr Pawlow
 mailto:pp at siedziba.pl
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