Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 17:41:29 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: sos@sos.freebsd.dk (Søren Schmidt) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, rhh@ct.picker.com, msmith@FreeBSD.ORG, sos@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2 Splashkit Message-ID: <199705120811.RAA05876@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199705070637.IAA05436@sos.freebsd.dk> from =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= at "May 7, 97 08:37:54 am"
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Søren Schmidt stands accused of saying: > > > > Currently, I am leaning towards having it disappear on any keypress. > > That one is easy :) Yeah. I think that it should go away and never come back, TBH. Bringing it back is a PITA; having it volatile means that I can follow Bruce's suggestion of having it loaded by the bootstrap, unpacked into display memory and then completely ignored. > > There's some provision for palette rotation already; the real problem is > > just arranging for the rotation on a useful basis - the console driver > > only runs when text is output, so colours would only shift during > > character output (not a bad idea though). > > No, the redraw rutine runs periodically even if there is no output (it > just doesn't do anything), this can be used for animation 20 steps > (IIRC) a second. There can be no animation during the probe fase (or > atleast just a little) as the system timers aren't running yet.. Sorry, I meant that during the probe phase the driver only ran while text was being output. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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