[CF-Devel] hmmpf

[dnh]

K, well it is actually a whole archetype..

when I get a chance I will put it here..

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dnh

On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Scott MacFiggen wrote:

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      On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 06:02:09PM +1000, dnh wrote:
     
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      > When I finally got the server working I poped one in the city and tried to
     
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      > take alook. When the image was just about to appear on screen *BANG* the
     
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      > SDL client died.
     
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      > ERROR on BlitSurface in file gx11.c line 6294
     
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      > Surfaces must not be locked during blit
     
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      > I suspect it may still have an alphachannel, does the new SDL blitter
     
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      > support this (like the GDK one did?).
     
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      SDL absolutley supports full alpha channel.. Assuming the PNG image
     
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      was properly done. The SDL client doesn't actually lock any of the
     
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      image surfaces but the SDL library itself does. So you either hit a
     
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      bug in the SDL library or your image is messed up which is causing 
     
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      SDL to barf on it..  You might want to try running the client 
     
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      with the SDL_DEBUG environment variable set to 1. Dunno if that
     
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      will help or not. 
     
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      Feel free to send me the files necessary for me to reproduce this
     
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      and I'll look at it.
     
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      	-SCott
     
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