Phoebus R. Dokos wrote: 
>>There is no support. But due to the way the PE is designed a 24bit
>>mode is no good idea anyway.
> Care to elaborate on this without revealing too much proprietary
> info???? (Pleaseee?)

What? That 32bit per pixel is far too memory consuming for a windowing
system that does the saving of backgrounds itself? Nothing proprietary
in this knowledge ;-)

The PE was designed for 2 bit per pixel with a small resolution and
the concept was good for that purpose. It's however a very bad design
if you have more bits per pixel (one single(!) 800x600 window almost
needs 2MB in 32 bit mode!).

> So effectively it can just be flipping around byte values or just garbling
> the contents of the screen memory...?

Yes, something like that.

Marcel

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