Re: Video and animation inside PicoGUI
Micah Dowty <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.video.picogui.devel |
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On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 05:58:20PM -0200, Lalo Martins wrote: > On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 09:55:14AM -0700, Micah Dowty wrote: > > > > Nah, I still think media_c is necessary. Pgserver already supports a lot of weird formats > > (ncurses, VGA sync signals embedded in the framebuffer, ASCII, planar modes...) that it > > would be a pain to try to support in an app, plus putting in an abstraction layer for mode > > conversion makes supporting future modes easy. I don't expect media_c to be complicated, just: > > > > - A very thin OS abstraction layer for the SHM segment > > - Mode conversion code a la SDL so your app can pick a mode and have media_c convert if desired > > - Optional convenience functions for setting up the app's main window > > > > Of course, if you don't mind having to deal with the framebuffer in pgserver's native format, > > feel free to start the VNC client :) > > Question is: would that be *pgserver's* native format, or the *underlying > system's* (eg X, fbdev, sdl, etc) format? Both :) pgserver doesn't really have a native format of it's own, it's defined by the video driver. On fbdev and sdl that's a pretty normal linear framebuffer, on X it's a SHM pixmap in the X server's address space and pgserver passes along whateve format info it's gathered from X. > > Hmm, btw (unrelated) it would be interesting to have a system for pgserver > to inform the app that something can't be seen in the current display driver > (eg, animation in ncurses). Hmm, once the messagedialog is server-side, we could set up a system for having pgserver notify users of things like that... I would also like a way for pgserver to notify the user that an app is waiting on a network transfer... for example, if you're loading a big image in imgview over a slow network, pgserver could after some timeout display a progress bar at the bottom of the app's root widget. > > []s, > |alo > +---- > -- > Those who trade freedom for security > lose both and deserve neither. > -- > http://www.laranja.org/ mailto:[email protected] > pgp key: http://www.laranja.org/pessoal/pgp > > Eu jogo RPG! (I play RPG) http://www.eujogorpg.com.br/ > GNU: never give up freedom http://www.gnu.org/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.NET email is sponsored by: > SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! > http://www.vasoftware.com > _______________________________________________ > Pgui-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pgui-devel -- Only you can prevent creeping featurism! ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com