Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 09:42:05 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com> To: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> Cc: sos@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libvgl - status and perspectives Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911080937290.8182-100000@freja.webgiro.com> In-Reply-To: <199911080111.KAA20479@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
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On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote: > > >Today I noticed accidentally that either libvgl is broken, or the demo > >program does something wrong - the mouse cursor doesn't move. > > Oops, sos and I have developed a new version of libsvgl which can > handle VESA modes in addition to the standard VGA graphics modes. > But I haven't committed it to the source tree yet (yes, I should have > done so weeks ago ;-( > > Anyway, if you are interested, I can send you a copy for testing. Yes, sort of... You see, with libvgl I ended up implementing most of the events abstraction myself - libvgl seriously lacks this (among others). So, of course new VESA modes are very interesting, but what would be really cool is more general framework for graphical terminal handling. > >But this brings more general question regarding console graphics library. > >As it is today, libvgl is almost useless due to very limited set of > >functions. There were discussions whether to port SVGAlib or GGI. Do you > >know if someone is working/planning to work on it? Do you know something about this? Andrzej Bialecki // <abial@webgiro.com> WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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