On a side note - display resolution changes now handled

Jehan nahor@bravobrava.com
Sun Jul 21 18:41:00 GMT 2002


Harold Hunt wrote:
> On the other hand, display depth changes are much more disruptive, I think.
> I don't think that DirectDraw can handle transfering bits from an offscreen
> surface of different format than the primary surface; doing so would seem to
> defeat the whole purpose of DirectDraw.  My current thinking is that we will
> simply display a popup message indicating that Cygwin/XFree86 will be
> unavailable until the display depth is returned to the original depth.

Isn't it possible to just froget about the previous offscreen buffer and 
ask all X windows to redraw themselves into the newly created surface?

	Jehan





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