On Fri, 19 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi !
>
> > If I'm not totatly wrong I remember that I've read some where that the
> > graphic cards have extra suport for cursors/mouse pointers.
>
> Yes.
>
> > As this would be a hardware feature I expected to gain control with a ggi
> > function. So there is no XCreatePixmapCursor, XDefineCursor, XFreeCursor
> > for ggi?
There may be soon. I am considering adding these functions to
LibXMI. Since LibXMI is intended to replicate the drawing API of Xlib,
they should probably be present anyway.
> Yes, as this _requires_ Hardware support.
Not really. You can do soft-cursors with transparency easily
enough, it just isn't very fast. You can hook ggiFlush() to ensure that
the cursor is always drawn last.
> We will soon provide an extension
> that does this, but it will only work on cards that have hardware support
> for it.
It is easy enought to support it is software too, so why not?
Jon
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