Re: A hack for flashplayer

Around 9 o'clock on Nov 14, Christopher Blizzard wrote:

> 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

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.

We should check the plugin code to make sure it isn't doing anything 
silly just in case.

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.

-keith