> Just a random comment: > > IIRC in the early days of kgi (aka scrdrv), we had another idea on how > to deal with the switch-away business: > > 1. If switchaway occurs, ask the Application to switch away gracefully > (using a signal). > > 2. If the application consents using a callback, all is well. > The application has thus the opportunity to handle the case nicely. > > I remember early versions of LibGGI using that to do some mmap-magic > that copid the framebuffer to memory and then placed the memory > buffer right at the place where the FB just was. Moreover it reset > the accel hooks and thus fell back to software drawing while > switched away.
That's exactly, what I proposed by using the memory target. See my other mail. For users/applications, who don't wanna have this "fall back feature" (see Jos reply to my mail), can pass an appropriate option to the kgi-target at opening time. -- CU, Christoph Egger E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr f�r 1 ct/ Min. surfen!
