Hi,
I just uploaded 1.9.4 to
http://www.arava.co.il/matan/svgalib and
http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~zivav/svgalib
There are a few more driver fixes, removal of background support. I
intend to remove the ALPHA support as well, as it is specific to some
old alpha machines, and I hope to make svgalib architecture independent
by moving all I/O to the kernel module. I did not progress much with
dual monitor support - non interactive programs can work on the
secondary, but there are still problems with input. I decided to wait
and see ho Pavel Machek's input subsystem of the kernel will look in
2.4, instead of trying to kludge something specially for svgalib.
I also added mouse cursor support. A short explanation:
the added functions are
vga_initcursor(force_software) - must be called first. A non zero
number will force svgalib to use software cursor, even if
hardware is supported.
vga_showcursor(show) - use 0 to hide, 1 to show, 2 to hide only if
software cursor, and 3 to deisplay only if software cursor.
The reason for 2 and 3 is that drawing over a software cursor is
not allowed, so if you draw to the screen where the cursor might
be, you need to hide the cursor if it is a software cursor, but
not if it is ahardware cursor.
vga_setcursorposition(x,y).
vga_selectcursor(num) - Select which of the 16 available cursors to
display.
vga_setcursorimage(num, type, col0, col1, unsigned long *image) - set
the image of cursor num (<16) to he image pointed to. Currently
only type 0 is supported, which means the cursor is 32x32, the
image is 32 words (one per line) of the cursor image, followed
by 32 words of the mask (same rules as X11 cursors: mask=0 is
background, mask=1 is image). col0 and col1 are 24bit numbers
representing RGB colors.
The software cursor functions are unoptimized, I'll be glad if someone
who wrote better cursor functions can adapt them for this method, and
send to me a patch.
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Matan Ziv-Av. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
