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RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Shadow Framebuffer Test 12
- To: "Cygwin-Xfree" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Shadow Framebuffer Test 12
- From: "Kevin Wright" <kevin at wright dot org>
- Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 18:38:58 -0800
Just to confirm what Harold said:
This latest version works very well! I'm running WindowMaker
and Eterm and the colors for both look great and run rather quickly!
As we say in the software business, "ship it"
Thanks,
--Kevin
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Harold Hunt
> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 6:29 PM
> To: Cygx (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Shadow Framebuffer Test 12
>
>
> Kevin Wright has confirmed for me that Test 12 runs on Windows NT 4.0.
>
> Harold
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Harold Hunt
> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 8:41 PM
> To: Cygx (E-mail)
> Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Shadow Framebuffer Test 12
>
>
> I just posted Test 12 to my usual announcement page:
> http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xwin/shadow/
>
> Test 12 is compiled with the Cygwin/XFree86 4.0.3 source code;
> you must have
> Cygwin/XFree86 4.0.3 installed before you install Test 12.
>
> Changes:
> 1) A great developer (John Fortin) once told me that
> the DDLOCK_NOSYSLOCK flag for IDirectDrawSurface_Lock
> was not introduced until DirectDraw4, which is not
> available for Windows NT 4.0. Including that flag
> causes the surface lock to fail on NT 4.0. I removed
> the flag from all calls to IDirectDrawSurface_Lock.
>
> Please report to the list if you are running Windows NT 4.0 and
> you can run
> this test but you could not run previous tests.
>
> Harold Hunt
>
>