On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Daniel Morais wrote: > > palm doesn't care about gaming/multimedia :) > > Do they realize why Sony devices are so appreciated ? > Wasn't Palm OS 4 (and then Palm OS 5) supposed to include some > "multimedia features" ?
sony units kick ass :) but, sony sucks at being "nice" to developers - their developer program sucks and the docs are not up to scratch.. if palm learnt a few things from sony, we'll be in business > >> You mean by using FtrPtrNew, for exemple ? :) > >> If I remind correctly, we can read almost normally using this technique > >> but only DmWrite can be used for write access, right ? > > > > there are ways around DmWrite :) > > Really ? > I would be glad to hear about that ! it doesn't work on OS5 :) > > why do you need two buffers? :) > > one for offscreen, the other.. is the screen? if you can allocate > > one, that should be more than sufficient - dont you think? :) > > Yes, sure, for some kind of animations... > But I prefer to have one "background" screen and one "work" screen. > That way, I can do very fast and clean animations ! i have never needed more than once offscreen buffer :) > > sony didn't do anything different, they just gave more heap space. > > Are you sure that the Clie HRWinCreateOffScreenWindow function take the > memory from the heap ? If that's the case, then they give much more than > 512 Kb of heap. i believe they take it from both the VRAM of the qmedia chip (if there is any) and from the heap if thats all used up. :P thats what i would do anyhow :P > By the way, whatever "trick" they are doing, Palm OS 5 should at least > do the same, to allow us to really use those "new high density > possibilites"... their "new high density possibilities" is a buzz word, just like marketing will say "palm on ARM CPU" yet - developers wont be writing native palm apps until palmos 6. marketing is a joke :) // az [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ardiri.com/ -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
