Daniel Laird wrote:
> I am trying to write a DFB driver for the hardware I am working on.
> 
> It has 4 layers and 2 mixers.  So the same layer can appear in 2 separate
> mixing chains.
> the Mixer API allows for this and is working well.
> However Layer Ordering seems difficult.
> 
> The ZOrder function is on the layer API and as such is not useful because
> the same layer may have 2 ZOrder values.  One for each mixer.
> 
> Is this is shortfall in the API or am I missing an easy way to set the layer
> order of a mixer so that I can havea  pool of 4 layers that can be ordered
> and seen on either mixer.

It's a shortfall. Ordering has been there before mixers and screens.

We could add ordering to the mixer configuration, but it would require
an array of MAY_LAYERS IDs in DFBScreenMixerConfiguration. Other ideas?

-- 
Best regards,
  Denis Oliver Kropp

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