From: Andrew Apted <ajapted@netspace.net.au>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:03:17 +1000

Re: Xblit 1 -> 16 on X

Jan Kneschke writes:

>  i wanted to draw a connection between Freetype and GGI. As we all know,
>  Freetype render its letters into a bitmap (display-memory).
>  the easiest way to transform this bitmap into a real picture is 
>  xblitting it to the visual:
>  
>  ggiGetMode(memvis,&m);
>  
>  ggiCrossBlit(memvis,0,0,m.virt.x,m.virt.y,vis,0,0);
>  
>  right ?
>  
>  sadly the crossblit displays nothing. ( 1 -> 16bpp on X)

Did you set a palette on the memory visual ?  The default cross blit
needs the color of each pixel, and without a palette everything prolly
ends up as black (there is no optimised one for src == 1 bit AFAIK).

Cheers,
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