[Splashy-devel] Adding progress text.

[Luis M]

Just to let you know that I fixed the tt issue and now splashy
compiles statically with true type support!
Let's see about implementing the "print" option now

On 2/21/06, Luis M <lemsx1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/21/06, Pat Suwalski <pats at xandros.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've been playing with splashy, and Xandros will be including it in our
> > distribution.
> >
> > I'd like to help develop some functionality that others might find
> > useful. Since we're replacing a (very) legacy splash system (writes
> > directly to video memory!), we need match functionality. The old system
> > is able to display some very brief text messages in arbitrary positions
> > on the screen. The idea is to give some very basic feedback about what
> > is starting. Classically, we've done ethernet devices and a few other
> > very simple things.
> >
> > I've gotten text printing working quite well. I'll be trying to make it
> > work with a bitmap font, as I think it could be a lot more efficient
> > (sizewise) than the ft2 implementation. This is a consideration, since
> > it will be going in our initrd.
> >
> > My idea for displaying text is to add another command to the fifo scheme
> > ("print") and basically print up to \n or NULL. The initial
> > implementation will default to printing near the upper-left, but I
> > suppose it could have a configuration option for this.
> >
> > Does anyone have a wishlist for this sort of functionality? If/when this
> > gets done, I'll make certain to post a patch for review.
> >
> > Splashy is a great program.
> > --Pat
>
> Hello Pat,
>
> As if you were fallen from heaven... I love Xandros. I used it for a
> while and gave it away to a bunch of my friends (the Open version of
> it of course).
>
> When we first started developing a bootsplashing system, I looked into
> the kernel patch you guys were using to accomplish this. Eventually we
> settle for fbsplash (gentoo's patch. gensplash project). Which we
> ported to debian as debsplash. That had a lot of shortcomigs and we
> ended up starting again from 0.
>
> Now, fast forward a year...
>
> I've been working on adding font support to Splashy for a while and I
> was just about to give up and move on. The reason is that when we
> compile Splashy on debian/ubuntu, the package doesn't include the
> needed .o files and it shows as if there is no font implementation.
> Doesn't work. If you look in the mailing list archives (splashy-devel)
> you will see that we sent an email to the DD in charge of packaging
> libdirectfb for debian to see if we can fix this problem some other
> way.
>
> Now, you seem to have something working already. This is good news. I
> have nothing against using bitmap fonts or adding a "print" command to
> Splashy. That's a good approach. Let's get together in IRC (#splashy
> on irc.freenode.net) and discuss this further. Or else, you can always
> reply to this message and I'll apply your paches to our svn.
>
> Thanks Pat for your help. Now I can concentrate in getting Splashy to
> work from a initramfs ramdisk (or something else in our long and never
> ending TODO file).
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
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> Luis Mondesi
> System Administrator
> Kiskeyix.org
>
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Luis Mondesi
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Kiskeyix.org

"We think basically you watch television to turn your brain off, and
you work on your computer when you want to turn your brain on" --
Steve Jobs in an interview for MacWorld Magazine 2004-Feb

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