Re: A hack for flashplayer

Keith Packard wrote:

>Around 9 o'clock on Nov 14, Christopher Blizzard wrote:
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>>Yeah, but this means that Mozilla can't see the depth 32 visual, 
>>either?  Also, are you sure that that isn't a bug in the Mozilla code?  
>>We open a new X connection for the flash player - it's very possible 
>>that we pick the wrong defaults and pass them off to the
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>Yes, mozilla cannot see the depth 32 visual if you enable this hack 
>outside of Mozilla.  However, I don't think the fault is in Mozilla.  
>Flash created the right kind of window and did many proper operations on 
>it before creating a shared memory image of depth 32.  I have no idea why
>the presense of this new visual caused them to do this; certainly the 
>presense of depth 32 image formats doesn't do it.
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>We should check the plugin code to make sure it isn't doing anything 
>silly just in case.
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>The right kludge (heh) will probably involve special code in Mozilla that 
>makes the flash connection not see the depth 32 visual while leaving 
>things otherwise alone.  Otherwise, Mozilla won't be able to use the 
>ARGB visual for menus and other eye candy, and that would be sad.
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>-keith
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Can we do these hacks per-x-connection?  That might actually be a nice 
feature.  Along the line of what xfixes does (or whatever it's called.)

--Chris

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