Alan Hourihane wrote: > > A lot of work. I've done most of the re-writing of the span > functions into their native GDI counterparts. That's a good start. >
Where can I find the native GDI changes? Are they checked in? My impression is that mode isn't included into the server by default. What is needed to get it to compile. > We need to implement the rest of the server into native GDI calls, > then we can start looking at 'rootless' modes. It's by no means > a small task to do the conversion to native GDI first though. > I wonder why native GDI is required for rootless modes. There would need to be support for creating Win32 windows for each X window. Plus, drawing (or blitting) into those Win32 windows instead of one single window or full screen. An internal window manager would also be needed. - Ian
