Re: [Alephmodular-devel] Drawsprockets?

[Br'fin <br...@ma...>]

*Laugh* What a splendid concept.

Seems a couple Carbon calls...
Some corresponding application services calls, also with carbon apis
And a whole bunch of CGDirectDisplay and CGDirectPalette APIs also in 
application services.

-Jeremy Parsons

On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 04:22  PM, Alexander Strange wrote:

>
> On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 01:57  AM, Br'fin wrote:
>
>> Is there yet a more appropriate API than DrawSprockets for going 
>> right to the display hardware of MacOS X? Right now CDisplay is very 
>> centered towards the way AlephModular currently uses a single back 
>> buffer that is always getting copied forward (A window back buffer 
>> and appropriate flush to display calls) I'm sure this will turn up 
>> cases of flicker (Places where info needs to be updated on both 
>> buffers not getting updated properly) Hooking it up with 
>> DisplaySprokects should help flush out those areas in need of 
>> improvement. But I really don't know if DrawSprockets is the Apple 
>> recommended way of going about this anymore.
>>
>> -Jeremy Parsons
>
> Well, I assume a "more appropriate" API would be whatever 
> DrawSprockets uses.
> Run 'otool -LHV 
> /System/Library/Frameworks/DrawSprocket.framework/DrawSprocket' and 
> see.