[ros-kernel] RE: What we really need - Not explorer

[Phillip S. <ps...@cf...>]

Not only that, but a lot of the GDI is not performing graphics primitives 
on a VGA display, it is calling DDI drivers to perform graphics primitives 
on whatever display the DDI driver is for.  Essentially, a VGA graphics 
library provides the low level DDI type functionality, and we already have 
a VGA DDI driver.  Other hardware will be handled by using the DDI driver 
for that particular video card.  Writing a GDI built to call another 
graphics library instead of a DDI driver would be pointless - we just need 
to finish the GDI we have now that calls DDI drivers.  For that matter, I 
think the GDI is nearly complete isn't it Jason?  What we need now use the 
USER apis and message queue.

At 05:51 AM 10/2/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>Writing that front end would be a huge amount of work that would
>probably be better spent on the GDI itself.
>
>- Jason
>
>--- "Frank D. Engel, Jr." <fd...@ya...> wrote:
> > I have a suggestion.
> >
> > There are numerous libraries floating around out there to support
> > VGA/SVGA graphics.
> >
> > Why not write a GDI "front end" to one of those (GPL/LGPL)
> > libraries
> > for now? It would not be very efficient, but it would be a start.
> > Then
> > you could gradually move more and more of the library code into the
> > GDI
> > calls to increase the efficiency, until eventually the system would
> > be
> > fairly optimal.
> >
> > --- Michael Rich <alp...@al...> wrote:
> > > > Trying to build a explorer replacement or even really think
> > > > about it right now is kinda stupid when i cant even run
> > winhello
> > > yet.
> > > > Steven Edwards
> > >
> > > I agree with Steven on this issue.  Too much focus is put on the
> > > "pretty"
> > > features, probably mainly because folks who work on those parts
> > can
> >
> > =====
> > =======
> > Frank D. Engel, Jr.
> > Please note my new address: fd...@ya...
> >

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