From: Jon M. Taylor <taylorj@gaia.ecs.csus.edu>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 06:25:33 -0700 (PDT)

Re: aalib target

On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Brian S. Julin wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, [iso-8859-1] Niklas Höglund wrote:
> > > 	It would require the AAlib target to overload ggiPutchar() and
> > > friends, right?  I think this is possible.
> > 
> > The problem is what to do when someone uses ggiPutc() on a coordinate
> > that isn't on a text line, but "between" two.
> 
> An extension could fix this -- something like GGIConsoleOverlay;
> it could take over the console as a text visual, and allow/request 
> fbcon to render portions of the console during graphics, like it 
> does without linvtsw or in aalib/monotext's case, draw portions 
> of the console in ASCII text over the image.

	Good idea, I didn;t think of that.  It'll look a bit more raggedy - 
the ASCII art will be brutally clipped at the offending charcell - but it 
will result in much faster framerates.
 
> Of course then you have to deal with potential syslog messages
> and other cruft appearing on the console.

	So turn off log messages to the console.  I had to do this anyway 
- you lose your mind in KGI driver development if those debugging prints 
spew out all over your VCs ever time you switch.  I'm sure you have seen 
this before |->.

Jon

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