On Mon, 27 May 2002, Bas Wijnen wrote:
> > BTW, if anyone would try to create a *real* graphical
> > shell (not just a program launcher), I mean... an entire
> > graphical environment, with standard libraries for input,
> > windows, system resources and so on, Screen 6 is the
> > natural choice.
>
> 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.
Hardware independant? Hehehe. That made my day. Sure, there are a lot of
"video cards" for the MSX :)))
> 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.
Hmmm... switch to the desired mode, display the image, switch back.
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Stephen Pedrosa Eilert
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