From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Wed Aug 18 04:36:26 2010 Message-ID: From: "Jo Even Skarstein" To: Subject: [MiNT] MiNT +problem with background in Teradesk Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:35:01 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 14.0.8117.416 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V14.0.8117.416 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: joska@online.no Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: Sorry, this was supposed to be sent to the list. -------------------------------------------------- From: "Jo Even Skarstein" Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 10:34 AM To: "Paul Wratt" Subject: Re: [MiNT] MiNT +problem with background in Teradesk > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Paul Wratt" > Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 10:16 AM > To: "mint" > Subject: Re: [MiNT] MiNT +problem with background in Teradesk > >> from what I can see it is possible for both AES and Teradesk to have >> different bg images (one each) > > Why? When the desktop tree is installed it's there and is always > displayed. XaAES only displays a tree when no other app has installed a > desktop object tree. > >> The only issue I have with this (img textures) is that I was unable to >> find a program that runs on ARAnyM that can produce XIMG > 265 colors >> that work in XaAES > > Hmm... I have not tried this myself. But since Smurf is open source (and > in the FreeMiNT CVS) it would be possible to correct it's IMG saving > routines. > >> If we are lucky, and Teradesk uses a generic Tree Object, there may be >> other programs that could also use it. How lucky so we feel? > > Why mix Teradesk into the picture? It would be a general solution. The > root window (desktop) is redrawn by the AES itself, not the application. > The application only registers the object tree with the AES. So by > replacing the background object with an image this would work with most > desktops. > > Jo Even