RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Overlay and No DirectInput Test 5 - No Overlays

["Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

Did you check the Task Bar?

On My PC, the X-server Windows opened, blinked 5 or 6 times, then minimized
itself to
task-bar.  A very strange behavior

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: j.j.ita@siep.shell.com [mailto:j.j.ita@siep.shell.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 4:18 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com; Harold@compasstechnologies.com
> Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Overlay and No DirectInput Test 5 - No
> Overlays
>
>
> Harold,
> 	I do not mean to be insulting, but was your fix supposed to
> produce a window or induce some other type of behavior? Once again I
> tested your fix with two NT 4.0 (SP5) machines, one with an Appian
> jeronimo 2000 card and one with an Intense3d Wildcat 4110 card. I ran
> the bat file:
>
> @echo off
> SET DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
> SET PATH=%PATH%;C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin;C:\cygwin\bin
> XWin -screen 0 1024x768x32 -whitepixel 255 -blackpixel 0
>
> and got the response in a Command Prompt window:
>
>
> C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin>startxserver
> _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
> Desired Width: 1024, Height: 768, Depth: 32
> xf_dx.dll: Process attach
> enable_xf_dx: LoadLibrary success
> xf_dx.dll: AdjustVideoMode entered
> Adjusted Width: 1024, Height: 768, Depth: 32
> xf_dx.dll: winDXAllocateFramebufferMemory entered
> xf_dx.dll: Process detach
>
> C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin>
>
> but no window appeared and nothing noticeable happened to the screen.
> At least there were no errors this time, so you must be getting close
> (cross our fingers).
>
> Joel
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Harold@compasstechnologies.com
> > [mailto:Harold@compasstechnologies.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 4:07 AM
> > To: cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
> > Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Overlay and No DirectInput Test 5 -
> > No Overlays
> >
> >
> > *This test should work on almost all machines*
> >
> > I got rid of overlays in favor of writing to an offscreen buffer and
> > occasionally blitting (copying) the contents of that
> > offscreen buffer to the
> > display memory (primary surface).  This should work on almost
> > all machines.
> > I have tested it on my Windows 2000 and my Windows 98
> > machines; it works.
> > I'm not saying it has the best performance in the world, but
> > it does work.
> >
> > Updates in this test release were constrained to xf_dx.dll,
> so, if you
> > already have the Test 3 full package
> > (OverlayAndNoDITest.tar.bz2) installed,
> > you can just download the xf_dx.dll package; otherwise,
> > download the full
> > Test 5 package.
> >
> > Full Test 5 Package:
> > http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/OverlayAndNoDITest.tar.bz2
> > (1.7 MB)
> > Test 5 xf_dx.dll Package:
> > http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xf_dx.dll.tar.bz2 (43
> > kB)
> >
> > You can download the xf_dx.dll test 5 source if you have
> > Visual C++ 6 and
> > you feel like poking around:
> > http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xf_dx-src.zip (14 kB)
> >
> > Good luck, enjoy, and thanks for testing,
> >
> > Harold
> >
>