From: Carsten H. (T. R. <ra...@ra...> - 2006-09-05 23:21:57
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On Tue, 5 Sep 2006 17:31:15 +0200 Rene Rebe <re...@ex...> babbled: > Hi, > > On Tuesday 05 September 2006 17:11, Carsten Haitzler wrote: > > > Of course I did not expect anyone to fix it for me, I just wanted to know > > > from the Evas overguru if said steps would be needed to address this. > > > > > > I noticed this because I'm right now working on the third user-space > > > boot screen (splash) project because usplash and splashy are just > > > crap all over. > > > > > > I think some few lines of glue code with Evas doing the rendering would > > > be a awesome alternative. Maybe I come back in some days with some > > > real world code ,-) > > > > excellent! - though note - it is very easy to just run in 16bpp or 24bpp - > > these days there is no excuse not to run in 16bpp at least. the difference > > in quality between 8 and 16 is ENORMOUS and there isn't a "sane" gfx card > > today that can't do 16bpp - if it can do 8. if you are doing graphical > > splashes... it can be in 16bpp - or 24/32 :) trust me though - the quality > > difference is amazing. 8bpp just looks completely awful if you need to do > > generic rendering and thus pre-allocate a color-cube palette. :( > > Yes, I know - I'm quite a bit in the graphic business as well ,-) Though I > also have some good old machines such as SPARC Stations around > and usually want to write code in a way to not interfere with such older > machines people still (might) want to use. Also I might even need a > working 16 color fallback for the rare case neither vesafb nor a card > specific fb driver takes over and it runs on the plain VGA FB console, > yuck. 16 color vga == use text mode :) (imho). it's not sane to do a color display - maybe 16 shades of gray (black to white). you would need a planar converter/handler then too which there is none of in evas :( that's why i originally decided "well if you only can do 8bpp - use text mode :)" (when doing specialised fb based apps/etc.) -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ra...@ra... 裸好多 Tokyo, Japan (東京 日本) |