Development Status Update 8

[Robert Collins]

Welcome back Harold. 

Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harold Hunt 
> Sent: Monday, 19 February 2001 2:56 PM
> To: Cygx (E-mail)
> Subject: Development Status Update 8
> 
> 
> I have been making modest progress on the Windows GDI based 
> Cygwin/XFree86
> development; most recently I was able to finally get 
> transparent stipple
> fills working.  Transparent stipple fills turned out to be a 
> little harder
> than I thought, as they must be decomposed into about 4 raster ops in
> Windows GDI.  I first implemented the transparent stipple 
> fill logic in a
> stand-alone test program, which worked fine; however, my first run of
> implementing transparent stipple fills in Cygwin/XFree86 has 
> produced some
> unexpected results... I'm going to revisit the transparent 
> stipple fill code
> in a day or two to figure out my error.
> 
> I should see the familiar X startup background after fixing 
> stipple fills
> and developing a color translation model for the Windows GDI 
> Cygwin/XFree86
> server.  At that point I'll probably send out a development 
> snapshot so
> people can see what I have been up to.
> 
> I should be resubscribed to the mailing list within a few 
> minutes.  My new
> email address is huntharo at msu daught edu.
> 
> I'll keep everyone posted,
> 
> Harold
> 
>