[Vm-dev] Bigger cursors needed

[Andreas Raab]

This sounds good to me. About the 128x128 restriction: Don't. If 
platforms do not support a particular size, then just fail the primitive 
and leave it to the image to sort out the problem. There is no reason to 
make such artificial restrictions these days.

Cheers,
   - Andreas

Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> for the OLPC XO with its 200 dpi screen we really need larger cursors 
> than are currently supported in the VM.
> 
> AFAIK, all major systems now support arbitrary 32 bit RGBA bitmaps as 
> cursors.
> 
> I'd suggest to simply extend primitiveBeCursor to allow 32 bit forms. An 
> older VM would fail the primitive so action could be taken on the image 
> side. The primitive would then call a new function, say
> 
>     ioSetCursorRGBA(cursorBitsIndex, width, height, offsetX, offsetY)
> 
> IMHO, we don't really need to support other depths than 32, so we do not 
> have to give that as parameter to ioSetCursorRGBA().
> 
> Not sure if we want to restrict cursor size to, say 128x128. What do the 
> platforms support?
> 
> - Bert -
> 
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