[Xlibs] A hack for flashplayer

[Jim Gettys]

If there is a bug in Flash, we should do Macromedia the courtesy
of reporting the bug as well as we can now.

We don't want to have to live with kludges for a single application
forever, and by the time this stuff deploys in quantity, it
is likely they'd have done a new release.
                          - Jim


On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 14:49, Keith Packard wrote:
> Around 9 o'clock on Nov 14, Christopher Blizzard wrote:
> 
> > Yeah, but this means that Mozilla can't see the depth 32 visual, 
> > either?  Also, are you sure that that isn't a bug in the Mozilla code?  
> > We open a new X connection for the flash player - it's very possible 
> > that we pick the wrong defaults and pass them off to the
> 
> Yes, mozilla cannot see the depth 32 visual if you enable this hack 
> outside of Mozilla.  However, I don't think the fault is in Mozilla.  
> Flash created the right kind of window and did many proper operations on 
> it before creating a shared memory image of depth 32.  I have no idea why
> the presense of this new visual caused them to do this; certainly the 
> presense of depth 32 image formats doesn't do it.
> 
> We should check the plugin code to make sure it isn't doing anything 
> silly just in case.
> 
> The right kludge (heh) will probably involve special code in Mozilla that 
> makes the flash connection not see the depth 32 visual while leaving 
> things otherwise alone.  Otherwise, Mozilla won't be able to use the 
> ARGB visual for menus and other eye candy, and that would be sad.
> 
> -keith
> 
> 
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Jim Gettys <Jim.Gettys@hp.com>
HP Labs, Cambridge Research Laboratory