The Console TV application I mentioned, allows you to WATCH
TELEVISION while working in your console. It uses a piece of the
SVGALIBs to accomplish this.
So, your presumption is in err, although your presumption does
make perfect sense. I wish I had the time to learn all the ins and outs
of how that works. All I know is that it does.
Regards,
Robert Adkins II
IT Manager/Buyer
Impel Industries, Inc.
586-254-5800
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Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 4:53 PM
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Subject: Re: View pictures from command line
>"switching to graphic card mode" != X
I didn't say that, or impy it.
>You don't have to run X to see images. That's what SVGAlib buys you.
>You're technically correct that in text mode you don't get graphics,
>but you can get graphics on the console without X.
Changing graphics mode in order to do images would mean having to keep
track of
the current console mode, i.e., the text already on the screen. Either
that
or it just switches to graphics mode, runs the program to display the
image
with the command line no longer avialble until the user quicks viewing
the
image and returns to text mode.
So, bottom line, I was right in that images can't be viewed from the
command
line and stay in that text mode, but wrong in that nothing stops an
executable
from switching the mode to display graphical material.
MB
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