| From: | Patrick Roberts |
| Date: | 4 Sep 2000 at 10:47:57 |
| Subject: | AMIOPEN: Dev Questions |
Gary-
Here's the dev questions I've received:
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Q: Are the threads different from Unix threads? If so, in what way?
I'm planning to port the POSIX threads API (pthread_create etc.),
so any hints would be helpful ;)
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002
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Q: How can shell commands be launched with options a from primary
tool if shell environment doesn't exist?
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003
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Q: Is it possible to directly read the keyboard matrix ?
(e.g. detect if three keys are pressed together?)
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Q: How can gadget color, font, and texture properties be changed?
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Q: Is it possible to change the mouse pointer (and how?)
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006
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Q: Are any pixmap blit methods hardware accelerated?
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007
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Q: Is blitting a 15bpp pixmap to another 15bpp pixmap going through
any color conversion?
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Q: How can pixels be directly written to a pixmap frame buffer?
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Q: Is there an example of, or how can the keycooked device
be made to send events to a gadget/application (EV_KEYUP, EV_KEYDOWN)
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Q: When will up-to-date elate C headers be available (esp. ave.h)
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Q: Is there an example, or how does the comms event work (EV_DROP)
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