[Vm-dev] SurfacePlugin questions (reference Mantis 7344)

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 05.05.2009, at 07:11, Andreas Raab wrote:

> David T. Lewis wrote:
>> I'm starting to look at RomePlugin for Mantis 7344 (When pango  
>> rendering
>> preference is used, the vm segfaults in linux 64 bits). RomePlugin  
>> uses
>> SurfacePlugin, which has some pointer-as-int issues to be sorted out.
>> So two questions:
>> 1) Am I right in thinking that the surface handles in SurfacePlugin
>> will always be C pointers of one type or another, hence can be  
>> declared
>> as (void *) rather than int?
>
> Yes.
>
>> 2) If the above change is propagated through the code, how many  
>> plugins
>> are effected? I see RomePlugin, ExampleSurfacePlugin,  
>> QuickTimePlugin,
>> and B3DAcceleratorPlugin, but are there others e.g. for Croquet?
>
> None that I can think of at this point
>
> Cheers,
>  - Andreas

BitBlt I think, but I would need to look at the code.

- Bert -