[Gambas-devel] Screenshot from framebuffer?

[Daniel Campos]

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>Well, you could have googled for gtk and directfb, but the short 
>answer is, this will allow the development of form-based Gambas 
>apps that don't require X to be running at all, which will be 
>totally cool for embedded and kiosk type applications.
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>SDL will also allow the development of Gambas apps that don't 
>need X, but it's more of a high performance thing for games and 
>multimedia so you don't have forms, you just treat the whole 
>screen as a big drawing area.  Gtk/directfb adds normal Gambas 
>forms to the mix.
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>Rob
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GTK supports this directFB backend, but It also has support for 
"linux-fb" backend, that
does not provide graphics acceleration but should be more stable than 
DirectFB, and provide
support for more graphics cards. However, each time I try to compile 
gtk+-2.4 or gtk+-2.6 with
the "--with-gdktarget=linux-fb" flag in "configure", I have errors in 
the compilation. And there's
nothing about this in the GTK+ lists.

Rob, if you plan to test that in the future, please send me your results...

Regards,

D. Campos


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