On Mon, 27 May 2002 14:39:33 +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote: >Not at all. If such a library would be created it should be hardware >independant, with functions (possibly implemented as macro constants) >for getting the screen sizes and colour depth and so on. The >implementation may start as screen 6 only, but it should be no problem >to port it to screen 5, 7 and 8 (and higher for 2+). Then the user can >use all programs on all screens (as is the habit for X. only a few bad >programmed ones don't work on all colour depths). It would be really bad >if you write an image viewer and it can only be used in screen 6.
I'll not start this thread again. Do it and you'll have another slow beast like MSX-View. Good luck. BTW: The API should be independent, but the implementation would use Screen6, since it's even more slower using other resolutions. Keep in mind that the MSX is running Unix, but still a MSX. []'s Daniel Caetano [EMAIL PROTECTED] ..."A necessidade de criatividade e' o que contribui para a mudanca. A criatividade mantem o criador vivo." (Frank Herbert) http://www.caetano.eng.br/ - This OS/2 system uptime is 1 days 01:32 hours. -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
