From: Dmitri Semenov <hatter@chollian.net>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 12:23:15 +0900

Open letter to Marcus Sundberg(was:Re: problems over matrox fb )

I've made mistyping
Please read this:
P.S. If anyone want to inspect quality of my code please feel free to ask
me(if you feel ). ...
as:
P.S. If anyone want to inspect quality of my code please feel free to ask me
( if you can read C++ code fluently ). ...
I'm sorry if anyone took offence by this :(

-----Original Message-----
From: e94_msu@e.kth.se [mailto:e94_msu@e.kth.se]On Behalf Of Marcus Sundberg
Sent: Sunday, November 07, 1999 03:45
To: ggi-develop@eskimo.com
Subject: Re: roblems over matrox fb



Andreas Beck <becka@rz.uni-duesseldorf.de> writes:

> > Sample:
> > ggiDrawLine(-10, 20, 90, 120);
> > ggiDrawBox(-10, 20, 100, 100);
> >
> > line left top end is pointed somewhere
> > Box disappeared from the screen
> >
> > I have no problem with X target. I never tested vesafb.
>
> Hmmm - might be a problem with HW-Accel. Marcus - are these HW-acceled in
> the matrox driver ?

Yes.

> If so and the problem is reproducible, could you fix
> that behaviour ? It is important, that HW-acceled functions behave exactly
> as defined by LibGGI standards.

This is not defined anywhere, and I strongly believe this behaviour
should be documented, not "fixed".

The problem here is simple - the coordinate system in LibGGI ranges
from (0,0) to (oo,oo). Negative starting coordinates happens to work
when you use software clipping, but with hardware clipping and drawing
the results are undefined.

The reason this behaviour should not be changed is that for lines it
isn't as simple as truncating negative values to zero. I do not
intend to put a full software line-drawer into the matrox sublib
for the sole purpose of supporting broken applications.

//Marcus
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