I had a little time over so I wrote this...

[Dan East]

It does work on Casios?<br><br>Dan East

[Moose or Chuck]

no, appearantly it uses so aspect of gapi that does not happen on MIPS. When it asks for a framebuffer on arm it gets a new frame and on mips it doesnt'. I know no idea what that means, but thats what Carpe said.

[Dan East]

With the iPaq, when you ask for the display buffer with GAPI, you get a real pointer to the display memory. Thus you don't need to get the pointer each frame, and you can read from the display as well as write to it. With the Casio you get what amounts to a temporary buffer. Once you're done with the buffer, and call GxEndDraw, the contents of the buffer are converted and written to the real display hardware. Apparently the buffer is not filled with the display contents every time you ask for it, so you can't use it for reading.<br><br>Dan East

[Gods_Gift]

Since I have a Casio I can't runt skinion but ...<br><br>Why has it taken Stardock etc. months and months to produce a Release Candidate for this and you're at a beta stage after a couple of days coding in between other projects.<br><br>"Are you a god ?"<br><br>What are the features/mips realease?

[RICoder]

Dan, I am curious about your comments on MIPS (Casio) implementation of GAPI.<br>On the one hand, you are right, you get a backbuffer of sorts when you request it from GAPI, and call GXEndDraw will do what is essentially a hardware flip.<br>However, the address for this frame is permenant from GXOpenDisplay to GXCloseDisplay as near as I can tell, and not only that, but it contains the current screen contents.<br>Have you had something happen that does not match this case?  I ask because I have not, and I rely on that usabilty in much of the code I am writing.<br>

[Dan East]

So if the display is written to by another program(not via GAPI), you are able to read those modifications from the GAPI-provided video pointer?<br><br>Dan East

[Dan East]

I can't remember where I read it, but I heard that the Casio's display hardware is not actually RGB 565, and that the buffer is translated by GAPI to the hardware's native scheme. I thought it was on these boards somewhere...<br><br>Dan East

[RICoder]

That depends on what you mean...hehe<br><br>If you had the pointer to the buffer, and THEN wrote to the screen using the GDI, and THEN requested the screen values, I don't know what would happen.  I have never done this, and I can't see why you would want to, though I am sure there is a reason.  However, I grab the screen contents all the time, even after a windows event that causes a redraw with normal win components in it and it works, so I don't know what the rules are as Casio implimented it.<br><br>As for the RGB565 thing, me thinks you is correct.  In fact, I have seen some funky stuff even using the buffer.  I actually flip the Red and Blue positions when I go from emulation to the Casio to get it to work (but I am not sure if that is an x86 architecture thing, 'cause I read the values from a file, and you know how those bytes get flipped.  Ignore this, because its a bug I am tracking down.)

[suchiaruzu]

Okay, I want some comments on this. It's an artwork on the PocketMatrix-Dashboard skin, combined with WIS Bar. Tell me if you want something else or whatever, I've never done a Dashboard skin before, and I dont use Dashboard. Looks cool on my Casio though.<br><br>Thanks, <br>Shape

[Diego Cueva]

It looks cool Shape. Man I need to download that app!

[RICoder]

Pretty spiffy...<br>Too bad I use a C A S I O ! ! !<br><br>C'mon Fredrik...you know you want to put out a MIPS version...Argentum can wait...do it...you know you want to...<br><br>But then I'd have to wait longer for Argentum, and I can't have that.<br><br>How 'bout this: Fredrik, don't sleep for one week.  Spend nights on Arg, and days on this.  I mean you wrote it in 2 days.

[suchiaruzu]

Thanks, Diego!<br>Oh, and RICoder - Dan just explained why it wouldnt work Sorry.

[Diego Cueva]

That´s a pretty cool app Fredrik.<br>BTW, it would be cool if the app could disable the background image in PIE, so it wouldnt mess up some webpages. Just an idea..

[Jeff]

I'm having a bit of a problem here. When I launch the program, I get "Fatal Application Error" (illegial operation and will be shut down). Could someone please help with this? Thanks-

[Moose or Chuck]

shape you own, release NOW!