splash
I finally got to display the splash! I created an additional program to
convert
a PNG image to desired format: 640x480x16 color indexed image with bits
divided in four planes. For now I added the raw image as a resource to the
kernel assembly, though it doesn't seem like a good idea since we're aiming
for a micro-kernel. The splash get displayed immediately on boot and
remains.
I used trunk kernel revision 714 (not sure). I'll see if I can prepare a
patch in
the weekend or the next week...or the other one...
Bruce Markham wrote:
On Dec 23, 2007 11:07 AM, Maciej Jagiello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
I managed to initialize a VGA screen and clear it without using
the BIOS.
I used a public domain C program DarxKies pointed me and a bit from
JNodes VGA driver (commented out actually). It looks like a hack,
it is a
hack, hard-coded to 640x480x16 only and it does nothing more than a
clearscrean. My objective for now is to simply display a SharpOS
logo.
I hope I can make it this year and that the code will be useful to
expand
it so it can became a real driver once we know how one should look
like.
btw I don't have svn account. Could someone make one for me, please?
This is very exciting, and definitely the kind of direction we need to
move in.
The general rule we are working to implement, is that you have to have
a history of at least a couple acceptable patches before we let you
loose in the repository. (As/If the project grows, the number would
increase.) (The problem being, is that SourceForge SVN repository
management sucks, so we simply just h ave to be careful - its nothing
personal.)
Can you prepare a .patch made from your working copy, so that we might
test and examine the code ourselves? (Obviously, only hearing about
the code is not quite as exciting as getting to taste it...)
And you can let us see the screen shot by by using either a
paste-dumping site like PasteHere.com or a picture sharing site like
Flickr or Picasa.
The sound of the code is exciting, but its definitely only a baby step
in a very long and arduous journey. We have to draw up OO abstractions
around video hardware. And we have to write font-drawing code against
such an abstraction. But for the time being, this sounds like it will
be something quite fun to play with.
I started a true type implementation in mono some time ago, got it to read
basic structures of a .ttf file but stalled it because of the lack of
time. I'm
planning to resume it on a later stage.
(SharpOS games are coming to town, oh yea!)
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