nanogui@linuxhacker.org

Subject: Re: Reading and Displaying a Bitmap at runtime
From: Greg Haerr
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 11:48:27 -0700


: Greg is finally going to look
: at improving the X11 drivers.  

I've fixed the insanely slow drawing that occurs with all bitmaps
using the X screen driver.  However, the image routines are
still not enhanced yet.  That wasn't the biggest problem.  The
bug in the X driver was that XAllocColor() was being called
hundreds of thousands of times for every pixel in a bitmap,
for truecolor displays....  That slowed down image display
greatly.  Now the system computes the truecolor pixel
value based on the selected X Visual...

This will be released soon, I'm still integrating the tons of
additions that Alex has just sent me...

Regards,

Greg