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["martin krastev" <blue@xxxxxxxxx>]

"François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Wrong.
> The BDirectWidnow frame does change, but not the framebuffer.

so?

> Are you sure you know what that means when we say "BDirectWindow
> accesses the framebuffer" ? I means there is not another framebuffer
> for that window, it points to the screen. So except by changing the
> Screen size and bitdepth you can't do that.

i'm pretty sure i know how a bdirectwindow works. you surely have a point
about changing the screen bitdepth - it has to be done in the real envirnment.
but you're wrong about the rest.

> Which is also why when
> drawing you need to use he screen width and not the window width to go
> to the next line.

wrong. it's not the screen width, it's the screen-line pitch, or stride, name it
as you wish. from the POV of the user of a framebuffer this has little to do
with the buffer's visible geometry - horizontal dimension is one thing, scanline
stride is another (the only thing that can be expected about it is that it spans
_at_least_ framebuffer's number-of-columns).

> François.

blu