From: Ullrich von Bassewitz (uz_at_musoftware.de)
Date: 2002-11-24 19:40:37
Hi!
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 12:25:43AM +0100, groepaz wrote:
> mmmh just two chars to describe unique modes? thats very little if you
> ask me ;=P
I don't think there will be many different drivers.
> also, why put that restriction on a platform that dont need it when
> you translate from constants to real filenames anyway? (and also
> drivers would only work on one specific platform)
There is no such restriction. It is concidence that the name is just 6 chars
long.
> also wouldnt it be smarter to embed the type of resolution (or any
> other capabilities) into the module-file so the application really
> doesnt need to know which drivers are present?
The driver module does contain the resolution, number of colors and several
other information. Once loaded, you can retrieve this information using tgi
functions.
> (to me its an important
> point that additional drivers can be developed and used even with
> applications whose source is not available...and that also means they
> cannot be relinked against updated libs that know about new drivers)
This is no problem if the application supports it. Application can load
drivers by name.
Regards
Uz
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Ullrich von Bassewitz uz_at_musoftware.de
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