Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 08:37:54 +0200 (MEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@sos.freebsd.dk> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: rhh@ct.picker.com, msmith@FreeBSD.ORG, sos@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2 Splashkit Message-ID: <199705070637.IAA05436@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <199705070134.LAA15978@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "May 7, 97 11:04:11 am"
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In reply to Michael Smith who wrote:
> Randall Hopper stands accused of saying:
> >
> > I'd leave it enabled in my kernel with a nifty picture if it would
> > auto-dismiss itself when booting gets to the syscons login prompt.
>
> Hmm, I don't actually think it should disappear with the login prompt;
> it should stay there being pretty if the system isn't being dinked with.
>
> Currently, I am leaning towards having it disappear on any keypress.
That one is easy :)
> > The only bug/feature I've noticed with it so far is:
> >
> > - If I start X with the splash on, works OK, but bringing down yields a
> > corrupted screen (guess it doesn't kick-in a redraw when switching
> > out of syscons mode)
>
> Hmm, X _shouldn't_ work with the splash on, although I suspect that it
> depends on your hardware.
Well, it should, but it fails to restore the splash picture when X
exits, this houls be easy to fix also..
> > - Simple pixel or palette animation support. Not just because it'd look
> > cool, but because a splash screen should let the user know at a glance
> > that the machine isn't locked up. Also makes the time it takes the
> > machine to boot-up seem shorter.
>
> 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..
> > - A MSW95 LOGO.SYS converter for lifting cool pre-built splash pages
> > of the net and flipping them into FreeBSD :-) (Slap me, I'm dreaming :-)
>
> I'm sure they're just BMP images slapped on the back of an executable...
They are just BMP files with another name :)
sos> file logo.sys
logo.sys: PC bitmap data, Windows 3.x format, 320 x 400 x 8
sos>
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Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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