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- From: timm@void.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Tim McClarren)
- Subject: Re: SoftPC and NeXTSTEP 3.0
- References: <SCOTT.92Aug27125735@nic.gac.edu> <4881@rosie.NeXT.COM>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 23:32:51 GMT
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- sam_s@NeXT.com (Sam Streeper) writes:
-
- >Scott Hess writes:
- >> john@wpa.com (John Bartley) writes:
- >> >There have been previous reports that 3.0 would have some new
- >> >capabilities that would allow certain apps (such as SoftPC) to
- >> >handle direct screen writes (or whatever the appropriate technical
- >> >term is :-) much faster than is currently possible under 2.1.
- >>
- >> I've heard this at various times, too. What's the scoop? Is this
- >> possible? Can _I_ do it, or do just large companies able to
- >> wine/dine get access to this? In other words - is this documented,
- >> or slimey?
-
- >I think the scoop is that NXBitmapImageRep now supports the same formats
- >as window devices; You can't write directly to the screen, but you can
- >supply bitmaps that can be blasted into the Window Server's window devices
- >without unpacking.
-
- >This can make things like emulators and alternate Window Servers much
- >faster.
-
- >-sam
-
- >ps I'm sure it's documented and you won't need to shmooz...
- >ps/2 I hope shmooz isn't really a dirty word!
-
- You can already do this under 2.0. Check out ScreenMunger. With
- the proper overrides of relevant messages and what-not, you should
- be able to draw directly into an on-screen window. You'll have to roll
- your own utilities to blit images though.
- Tim
-
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