From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Wed Jul 14 23:06:55 2010 Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:33:01 +0200 To: MiNT Mailingliste Subject: Re: [MiNT] Bit-Depth and Graphics stuff.... Message-ID: <20100714213300.A17990@mbernstein.de> References: <1BCB0F08-DCCB-423A-B4E1-CCDB279C6B83@gmail.com> <6dbce3cf64caf9c3441739836652cad8-EhVcX1lFRQVaRwYcDTpQCEFddQZLVF5dQUBFBDBTXF5bVkYMXUF0BVM6XF1YSUADWl9cQw==-webmailer2@server05.webmailer.hosteurope.de> <4C34C2E4.5080909@online.no> <3847624A-0252-410C-B103-5BA7AAE195E0@gmail.com> <20100708223029.A20680@mbernstein.de> <47B6FCDC-13AA-4B15-BF8B-2A59E6E9991F@gmail.com> <20100711114630.B16224@mbernstein.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from pep.fishmoose@gmail.com on Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 11:55:31AM +0200 From: "Michael Bernstein" X-Df-Sender: 731418 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: mint@mbernstein.de Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: Hi Peter, > It's not a case of accessing the screen directly, it's a case of > rendering bitmaps directly to the target format. And this is a different thing for you? I think, it make no big difference. The VDI hides hardware specific informations. This includes the screen address and the organization of the device independant format. So in both cases you work around the VDI. And this is in both cases a bad programing style. > The worst thing that can happen is garbled window contents. I am shure, people dont like this. Best regards Michael Bernstein