I can't wait to hear this subject come up at the Color Palm Track of Computer Games
Developer Conference in a few months. Palm
would be very wise to have a patch ready for at least beta for those talks. Games
developers of all software engineers are the
least forgiving as far a system features are concerned. Yes, this is first hand
knowledge.
There HAS to be way to get to the color LCD control registers to turn these pixels to
black. I can't believe any LCD maker would
hardwire any pixel color in their LCD controller chip. It just takes someone in the
PalmOS systems group to write a patch for the
LCD driver for the color screen and document its API extension. I'm sure it is hard
coded right now just waiting for a more
general purpose function to be implemented.
Put this in Palm OS 3.5.1 maybe?
Steve
Horace Ho wrote:
> Bob, thanks very much for your detail answer again. After
> I ported my game to IIIc, I was so disappointed to know
> the existence of the white border. I'll post a screen shot
> to show why: http://palm.pair.com/temp/IIIcHope.htm
>
> For programs to have a black background, some pixels may
> be needed to border the border...
>
> Thanks again
> horace
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bob Ebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Palm Developer Forum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: Palm Developer Forum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: 2000 Mar 23 Thu 04:26pm
> Subject: Re: Get rid of IIIc white border
>
> > At 6:19 PM +0100 23-03-00, Horace Ho wrote:
> > >Oh my... my next question is "Why!?" The two pixels wide border
> > >really distracts small objects on a black/dark background.
> >
> > Why is easy. Almost all of the time, the background is white. If the
> edge
> > pixels were black, text and buttons that went right up to the edge of the
> > display would look really funny; they'd sort of meld into the border.
> >
> > On the greyscale displays, you get the same effect, only for 'free'
> because
> > the border is just clear. Try turning a grayscale device full black and
> > you'll notice you still see an edge of white around the center.
> >
> > >I really hope your answer is not final ;) Thanks Bob.
> >
> > I'm not sure what you mean by 'not final'. I'm describing how the
> hardware
> > is built. It's not a software thing. That's pretty final!
> >
> > --Bob
> >
>
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