On a side note - display resolution changes now handled

[Jehan]

Harold Hunt wrote:
> You must be tired.  

Well, actually yes :p. I did some canoeing last Friday and I haven't 
recovered yet. :)


> If we create a new offscreen surface (which I was not
> talking about doing, I only said we have to recreate the primary (onscreen)
> surface) with a different depth/format/etc than the original offscreen
> surface, then we have effectively changed the X graphics mode and we would
> need to use some sort of X extension to notify clients that all pixmaps and
> visuals have been reset.  If there is such an extension, I am not aware of
> it.

I'm not familiar with DirectX nor the internal of X so maybe I used the 
wrong words. I'm not actually talking of changing what the X server 
think the screen resolution/depth is. But we can already have a 
different resolution/depth for the visual than for the monitor, which 
means that there is a conversion at some point when the depth doesn't 
match. So why can't you just throw away everything that is after the 
conversion? I would think that, at worst, if the conversion happens when 
drawing into the offscreen surface, all the buffers would have to be 
recreated and that X would just have to ask all X windows to redraw 
their content in the new offscreen buffer.

	Jehan