RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Offscreen and No DirectInput Test 6

["Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

Harold,
Problem of moving the X-window, leaving a static X-desktop is still there.

Suhaib


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harold Hunt [mailto:Harold@compasstechnologies.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 12:22 PM
> To: Cygx (E-mail)
> Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Offscreen and No DirectInput Test 6
> 
> 
> Screenshots, 1024x768:
> 1)  A local xterm:
> http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/CygwinXFree86-ScreenShot-xterm.pn
> g (160 kB)
> 
> 2)  Remote gftp running on a GNU/Linux host with Gnome installed:
> http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/CygwinXFree86-ScreenShot-gftp.png
>  (153 kB)
> 
> 
> Changes:
> 1)  Copying from the offscreen buffer to the primary surface 
> buffer is now
> throttled to no more than 15 frames per second.
> 
> 2)  An extraneous check for overlay support was removed.
> 
> 3)  A few flags were added to the surface locking function 
> to, hopefully,
> ensure that the surface is locked without failure.
> 
> 4)  Offscreen frame buffer memory address changes are now 
> detected and the X
> server is notified of the new address when this happens 
> (should be rare).
> 
> 5)  The bounding window is now brought to the top of the 
> window z order
> after it is created.
> 
> 6)  Tokens containing "overlay" were modified to contain "offscreen".
> 
> 7)  Some commented out DirectInput code was removed.
> 
> 
> I'm just about ready to admit defeat in the video card compatibility
> department, I'm running out of ideas, and I can't reproduce 
> the problems
> with my equipment.  Please, look at the source for
> winDXAllocateFramebufferMemory() if you think you could add 
> any insight; the
> function only has about 20 non error handling lines, so it 
> should be easy to
> grasp the concept and start playing around with different 
> ideas.  Take a
> look at the source even if you don't have Visual C++; let me 
> know if you
> have any suggestions and I'll compile them and send them to 
> you to test.
> 
> Updates in this test release were constrained to xf_dx.dll, so, if you
> already have the Test 3, or greater, full package
> (OverlayAndNoDITest.tar.bz2) installed, you can just download 
> the xf_dx.dll
> package; otherwise, download the full Test 6 package.
> 
> Full Test 6 Package:
> http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/OverlayAndNoDITest.tar.bz2 (1.7 MB)
> Test 6 xf_dx.dll Package:
> http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xf_dx.dll.tar.bz2 (43 kB)
> 
> You can download the xf_dx.dll test 6 source if you have 
> Visual C++ 6 and
> you feel like poking around:
> http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xf_dx-src.zip (14 kB)
> 
> Good luck, enjoy, and thanks for testing,
> 
> Harold
>