21 Jun
2006
21 Jun
'06
9:34 p.m.
Jochen Kunz wrote:
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 11:37:29 +0000
Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Well I'm trying to avoid being too heavyweight; all I need are a few pixel ops
and the ability to write to an off-screen memory area. I just had another look
at SVGALib (vgagl) and that seems to do exactly what I need - plus it means I
don't need any of X at all (thus freeing up some storage space).
I'm looking at other possibilities too, such
as using SVGALib rather
than X
Qtopia?
IIRC there is somthing similar for GDK/GTK. If you are using some flavor of Linux yo may get away
by simply
scribbling into the kernel framebuffer device too.
I tried doing exactly that yesterday and locked the machine up ;-)
I'd be using DOS rather than Linux if it wasn't for the networking side; I
don't really fancy writing a socketed app under DOS, but it's pretty easy
under Linux at least.
cheers
Jules