Re: Proposal. Looking for feedback, interest, etc.

[BALATON Zoltan]

On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Alexander Malmberg wrote:
> > I currently do not use shared memory in the gslib backend. It could be
> > done in the X specific part but I think it should be implemented in the
> > x11 backend server instead. I hope the XShm code will be moved from
> > backart to the backend x11 server.
>
> As long as the interface is general enough that I can use for more
> exotic experiments, I'm ok with this. Should I move
> Source/art/ARTWindowBuffer.m to Source/x11/XWindowBuffer.m ? It does
> require a few pieces of information about the pixel format that the
> backend needs to provide, but not much.

For the gslib backend all I need is a pointer for the (shared) memory area
into which imaging should be performed and information on its
configuration (such as size, depth, padding, byte order, etc.). If I can
get these from the server the interface is OK with me.

Thank you,
BALATON Zoltan