On 22 Jun 2001, Florian Scandella wrote:
> Hi all..
>
> I have some questions about ggi..
>
> 1) as i understand libgalloc only allocs resources (video mem) and
> retrives information about what a target ist possible to do. ist this
> correct ?
Yes. Where the resource are stored may not necessary be video mem. It
can be physical mem, virtual mem, disk "mem" network "mem" either.
> 2) the galloc doc says you had to ask for resources (eg. sprites)
> first and then the video mode, because the setting of the mode
> eats all vram. is this true or is it because libgalloc isnt
> finished yet ?
Brian: I think, the docs must be updated.
That what the docs currently says, is the usual case. But there are
some targets (i.e. X), which requires to set the mode first and then
request resources.
> 3) if i allocate a sprite with galloc, how do i do the
> bliting/drawing/.. (accelerated/unaccelerated) ?
Using libbse is the most clean way. You can ask libbse to allocate
sprites for you. libbse handles the whole stuff through
libovl/libblt/libgalloc for you.
BTW: If you are going to use libblt, please note, that a complete API
change is already planned in order to make it more flexible.
> 4) does ggi support the xf4.0 dga ? ( i think its called dga2 )
No, unless someone comes up and writes a target for it.
> 5) not a question about ggi, but: how do you do your ChangeLogs ? i
> understand that emacs can create ChangeLogs, but only with the files
> allready commited, that means i have to commit the ChangeLog files
> afterwards -> a new entry in the ChangeLog ( and the ChangeLog is
> allways one step behind )
We are searching for a program, which can autogenerate the ChangeLogs
from the CVS logs. We know, that such a program exists (from Marcus),
but we don't know its name... :-(
CU,
Christoph Egger
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