From: Kien Pham <xengren@yahoo.com>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 04:50:52 -0700 (PDT)

Re: Sure-fire way to detect GGI.

--- Marcus Sundberg <mackan@stacken.kth.se> wrote:
> Kien Pham wrote:

> > eloquent way should jump right up and tell me. :)
> 
> ???
> Exactly what is it that you want to achieve?
> If ggiInit() and ggiOpen() succeeds LibGGI works, if it
> doesn't
> LibGGI does not work. If you want to do something else
> than that
> you're most probably on a very wrong track.
I'm writing a multiplatform library. I would prefer to
use GGI first and then any other library last. If GGI is
not installed, won't GGIInit() bomb out the entire program
rather than return an error code? I just want a quick way
to
check that GGI is installed and functional. Forcing
everyone
who wants to use my library to install GGI is a great idea,
but I don't think that's plausible. 
> > > > Also, was the issue of the ability to detect a
> cursor
> > > ever resolved?
> > A long time ago I asked whether or not I could check
> for a
> > cursor during runtime in GGI. I need to know whether I
> need
> > to render it myself(svgalib target) or if I can use a
> > pre-existing one (X11 target).
> 
> If you don't use a hardware cursor (which there currently
> isn't any
> extension for) you have to draw the cursor yourself,
> otherwise
> you are not coding for the LibGGI API.
Yeah. But then I end up with two cursors in X11 target of
GGI. 
> //Marcus
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