On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 11:17 -0400, Peter Harris wrote: > Patrick O'Donnell wrote: > > > (Supporting TrueColor, alas, would be a royal pain, given the design > > of the apps.) > > At least one app I've seen would use an OpenGL fragment shader to do the > PseudoColor => TrueColor translation at CopyArea[1] time. Instead of > calling XStoreColors, you would load a new 1D texture and redo the copy. > Unfortunately, I don't know of a way to bind an X Pixmap into an OpenGL > texture, so that may not help you any.
FWIW, the GLX extension GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap allows binding a pixmap into an OpenGL texture. It was designed for and is mostly used by compositing managers like compiz which use OpenGL, but AFAICT it should be usable for this idea. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.vmware.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
