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On January 11, 2004 05:42 am, Eric Botcazou wrote:
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> > Its not really silly. IIRC, the reason for that was DOS. a new video
> > memory bitmap always allocated from the screen. And it could well be that
> > way with the linux vga, svga and similar drivers... Now, the X and
> > Windows drivers arn't like this, because they have very different
> > semantics... the "Screen" is really just a handle to some form of
> > drawable surface that may or may not actually being shown, or other
> > things...
>
> I think it is justified when you can allocate a video bitmap larger than
> the screen: in this case, it makes sense to include the screen in the
> bitmap. But this is not possible under Windows and other platforms that
> expose paged-like VRAM.
>
> So we could standardize on the following behaviour:
> - the first call to create_video_bitmap() with dimensions larger or equal
> to those of the screen, if successful, returns a bitmap including the
> screen. - in every other case, the bitmap is allocated from off-screen
> VRAM.
That just seems odd. KISS. Make a video bitmap, start it from 0,0 no matter
the size. Make your 1st and 2nd pages then any other little things you want.
seems clearer to me that way.
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