From: Andrew Apted <ajapted@netspace.net.au>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 12:40:57 +1000

Re: LibGGI colormapping

Marcus writes:

>  > BTW, can we guaranteed that LIBGGI_PIXFMT(vis) will be set up by the
>  > target _before_ loading any sub-libraries (like generic-color) ?  I want
>  > the GGIdlinit of generic-color to convert the pixel format masks (for
>  > truecolor modes) into some shift values (stored in vis->colorpriv) so
>  > that the generic ggiMapColor/ggiUnmapPixel (etc) will be fast.
>  
>  I'm not sure we gain anything by guarantee this for _all_ sub-libraries
>  right now. (Some future target may use a sub-libary to set up 
>  LIBGGI_PIXFMT...) I simply suggest that generic-color may assume
>  it's set up, and that we document this.

Yep that's fine.

Cheers,
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