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[Maciej Suminski <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Jeff,

I am afraid it is not possible. We use two framebuffers for rendering:
the cached one keeps in the video memory vertices that are not likely to
change in the near future, the non-cached is for vertices that are
modified (e.g. dragged tracks) and are send to the GPU every frame.

To boost the performance even further, the framebuffers take advantage
of composition. The framebuffers are rendered to textures, then they are
blitted on the screen: first cached, then non-cached. Thanks to that,
the cached framebuffer might be reused for many frames when only
non-cached items are updated, but the drawback is that one cannot
interleave the rendering order.

Is there a particular problem you are trying to solve? Perhaps it can be
implemented in another way.

Cheers,
Orson

On 8/3/19 11:09 PM, Jeff Young wrote:
> How do I interleave a GAL non-cached layer with cached layers?
> 
> The selection shadow is currently non-cached, but because of that is always drawn behind device fills.  Is there a way to put it between LAYER_DEVICE and LAYER_DEVICE_BACKGROUND (both of which are cached in OpenGL)?
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