[Coco] NitrOS-9 GET/PUT buffer questions

James Dessart skwirl42 at gmail.com
Sat Mar 17 14:36:34 EDT 2012


On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Robert Gault <robert.gault at att.net> wrote:

> Can't answer all the questions. You are asking about the Windowing system
> calls which normally would be issued with the display command. For example,

Right, which I've been reading about. Is there a more direct interface
to the screen through NitrOS-9, or would I have to hit the hardware
directly?

> There is no conversion of data if you mismatch the screen type and data. I
> presume there must be room in your process space to map in the buffer or you
> won't be able to work with it. The buffer itself probably also exists in
> system space.

The comments in the code seem to indicate that it does convert the data.

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James Dessart
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