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Subject: RE: Drawing modes
From: Greg Haerr
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 12:10:19 -0600

On Wednesday, May 19, 1999 12:06 PM, Ben Pfaff [SMTP:pfaffben@msu.edu] wrote:
> Greg Haerr <greg@Censoft.com> writes:
> 
> 	   One more thing that could be cool about a design like this.  "Pseudo-graphics"
>    drivers can be created, which essentially know about other common screen formats
>    (read color bitmap formats) and then these binary formats can be easily imported
>    and exported from the nano-X system.
> 
> This is where a generic any-bit-depth driver is especially valuable.

	Is this what you're trying to do with the new bogl drivers using the variable
byte-putting procedures?

	This is more what I was suggesting when I talked about trying to combine
all the bogl 8/16/24/32 bit drivers into one, for maintainability.

Greg




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