[ENH] maximumSupportedDisplayDepth

Bert Freudenberg bert at isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de
Thu Jan 10 13:26:51 UTC 2002


On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, John M McIntosh wrote:

> >Hi John
> >
> >But I do not understand because on my VM it is working?
> >I'm on Squeak 3.2.1Beta6MT
> 
> It cheerfully reports that it supports all resolutions even if the 
> video card involved only supports say 16bit versus 32bit.

Which is correct behaviour. The Mac *VM* does support all bit depths for
the Display form. As does Windows. But not Unix, as it stands. That's all
the primitive is about.

What you suggest would be called nativeDepth or something, and it might
indeed be interesting to have. But then, a prim that answers all available
resolution/depth/timing combinationss to complement ioSetDisplay() would
be nice.

-- Bert





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