Well, you are right. When a new app starts it does cache the file. So if something else modifies the file (ini file) the OpenGL app will only know if it needs to write and therefore synch.
BTW there is tool that modifies our files: KLT (Kyro Linux Tools). Anyway I am glad to be of help. Vlad Stamate. www.powervr.com -----Original Message----- From: Ian Romanick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 28 January 2003 17:22 To: DRI developer's list Subject: Re: [Dri-devel] Configuration file format survey Vlad Stamate wrote: > When we did the powervr.ini file structure we ported code from our Win32 > drivers which used the same file structure. But Win32 offers an API to > read/write those kind of files, while for the Linux driver we had to rewrite > it from scratch. (not fun always :). But it satisfied our needs good enough. I figured that it was probably something like that. > But if you guys decide on a format we might adhere to it since it would be > nice if we simplify our drivers by using a loadable library. Also as far as > time goes we generally cache the file in memory and we flush whenever there > is a write. But then our files are small and timing was not THAT essential. That is VERY good news to my ears! After we have most of our stuff done, we're going to have to try to talk the various vendors of OpenGL drivers for Linux into using our system. Having one vendor tenetively agree before we even ask is nice. :) As far as caching goes, I guess I don't understand. Does that mean that if someone changes settings while an OpenGL application is running, the changes will take effect in the running app? Will it only take effect if the app creates a new rendering context? I had always just assumed that we would take a snap-shot of the settings when the app created its first context. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
