[openbeos] Re: app_server Team needs help!
- From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 12:24:10 +0100 CET
>
> > 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).
>
That's what I was meaning actually, using "width" as the physical fb
width, you can't change the "stride" of the framebuffer from the fake
driver in that way.
I think using an area and polling should the more flexible.
François.
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