RE: [Pgui-devel] X11 Driver

2001-12-28 Thread Sean Barnes
The speed didn't seem to be an issue, even on the VR3's 66 MHz processor. The rootless mode would be really cool on the VR3. For example, if a particularly cool PicoGUI app gets written (HTML viewer or spread sheet program maybe), it could be used on the VR3 under X. Since it wouldn't require a fu

Re: [Pgui-devel] X11 Driver

2001-12-28 Thread Micah Dowty
Wow, i'm glad it's useful to someone :) It still has plenty of rough edges: most operations are performed much faster than the SDL driver, but a few things in particular are still very slow: text, gradients, and some LGOPs are implemented using individual calls to pixel(), which as you might im

[Pgui-devel] X11 Driver

2001-12-27 Thread Sean Barnes
I just wanted to thank whoever added the X11 driver to PicoGUI... I finally decided to try it out on the VR3 and it works quite well. Sacrificing a little bit of the screen to the window manager is a small price to pay in order to stay up to date on both the Agenda and the PicoGUI communities. -S