On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Andreas Beck wrote:
> > as I once proposed, it might be desirable to know the visual's physical
> > dimensions. Lots of applications need such information, so it would be
> > best to provide that info at a low level instead of requiring every
> > application to provide a calibration tool. Some devices provide that
> > information, in which case you could simply use that to fill in the
> > visual.size part. Else provide some means to read that information from
> > a central configuration file (probably together with other necessary
> > data
>
> Yes. 120% agreed.
In general, a standard of 96 dpi could be used for video cards. This is
generally used on Windows.
> > > > >> * Remove _ggi_malloc and friends, use true error handling.
> > > --- Pending. If someone with insight
> > > --- into the LibGGI internals has some free time - get at it.
>
> > what would you like to be done ? replace _ggi_malloc with std malloc ?
>
> _ggi_malloc() is basically "malloc or panic". This should be avoided and
> replaced by using malloc, checking the returncode and bailing out cleanly.
I'll do this once I get CVS access.
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Lee Brown Jr.
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