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Lonny Pursell wrote:
> on 12/10/09 1:08 PM, Patrice Mandin wrote:
>
>   
>> As a general rule, don't use Xbios functions if you want to draw stuff
>> using VDI, and don't assume the VDI will give you the same
>> framebuffer/output device as the one the Xbios function gives you.
>>     
>
> Is there a way to get the screen address from the VDI without resorting to
> an NVDI call, some way that is compatible with the old VDI in tos rom?
>
>   
I was wondering this too for the obvious application vnc server.  You 
could take it one step further and create a network vdi that can do 
remote display ;)  I've been thinking about all of this but I'm so busy 
with work (which is not really what I expected for this winter).  How do 
screen capture apps work?

Thanks,
Mark