EGL_MESA_screen_surface version 5

[Jon Smirl]

On 4/22/05, Adam Jackson <ajax at nwnk.net> wrote:
> The thing is, right now screen_numbers are magic.  The app doesn't have any
> way of knowing whether a given screen number is valid.  Imagine plugging in
> screens 0, 1, and 2, and then unplugging 1.  Right now we don't even specify
> whether screen numbers start at zero or one.  The app has to guess.

Why aren't screen numbers opaque handles? In shared display
environments with ad hoc networking there might be screens coming and
going all of the time. Should there instead be an iterator function
that can handle screens disappearing? We want this API to work ten
years from now.

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Jon Smirl
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