On 22 Jun 2001, Florian Scandella wrote:
> 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.
> 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 ?
Well, you have a choice; you can ask for a video mode no larger than
a certain size, and hope there is still space left for sprites, or you
can ask for the sprites first. LibGalloc is not finished yet, either.
> 3) if i allocate a sprite with galloc, how do i do the
> bliting/drawing/.. (accelerated/unaccelerated) ?
Three more unfinished libraries will provide those functions:
LibOvl (sprites/windows) LibBlt (Blts) and LibBuf (Alpha/Z).
There are some other convenience libraries that will run on top
of these, for example LibBSE emulates a Sprite with LibBlt if it
cannot use LibOvl to create a real sprite.
> 4) does ggi support the xf4.0 dga ? ( i think its called dga2 )
We are fixing some bugs now. It works on my system after some changes
Andy made yesterday, but it doesn't work on Andy's system, and the changes
may have broken 3.3.x dga (1.x).
> 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 )
I've been noticing that my commits change the changelog -- I use EMACS,
but I don't know maybe this is just that I run a pretty new version of
CVS.
--
Brian
