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vga_fillblt(3)		       Svgalib User Manual		  vga_fillblt(3)

NAME
     vga_fillblt - file rectangular area in video memory with a single color

SYNOPSIS
     #include <vga.h>

     void vga_fillblt(int destaddr, int w, int h, int pitch, int color);

DESCRIPTION
     Fill  a  rectangular  area  in  video  memory  with  a  single color color.
     destaddr is an offset into video memory (up to 2M). The pitch is the  logi-
     cal width of the screen. Height h is in Pixels, Width w is in BYTES!

     This  is  an  old style function to access the accelerator of an SVGA card.
     Before calling it you should check for availability of the function in  the
     mode you use with vga_getmodeinfo(3).

     For  new applications you might be better of trying to use vga_accel(3) in-
     stead.

     The  old  vga_bitblt(3),  vga_blitwait(3),  vga_fillblt(3),  vga_hlinelist-
     blt(3),  and vga_imageblt(3) interface was originally designed for the Cir-
     rus chipsets. Then Mach32 added support too but has  problems  to	resemble
     the  unintuitive Cirrus interface. Then these new ideas were reinjected and
     vga_accel(3) was designed. Now Cirrus and Chips & Technologies chipset give
     limited vga_accel(3) support but no longer this old style support.   Mach32
     is  left  to use the unintuitive Cirrus interface. At some future point the
     functions might be added for Mach32 too (which should be rather simple), so
     new applications should use the newer and probably  more  efficient  inter-
     face.

     It  would	be  fatal  if the accelerator would be used while the console is
     switched away.  You should use vga_lockvc(3) and vga_unlockvc(3)  to  avoid
     this,  although  good  implementations  of  the accelerator functions (like
     Mach32) will already ensure that.

     The testaccel(6) demo utilizes the old style accelerator functions.

SEE ALSO
     svgalib(7),   vgagl(7),   libvga.config(5),   testaccel(6),   vga_accel(3),
     vga_bitblt(3),   vga_blitwait(3),	 vga_hlinelistblt(3),	vga_imageblt(3),
     vga_getmodeinfo(3), vga_lockvc(3), vga_unlockvc(3)

AUTHOR
     This manual page was  edited  by  Michael	Weller	<eowmob@exp-math.uni-es-
     sen.de>.  The  exact  source  of  the referenced function as well as of the
     original documentation is unknown.

     It is very likely that both are at least to some extent  are  due	to  Harm
     Hanemaayer <H.Hanemaayer@inter.nl.net>.

     Occasionally this might be wrong. I hereby asked to be excused by the orig-
     inal  author  and	will happily accept any additions or corrections to this
     first version of the svgalib manual.

Svgalib (>= 1.2.11)		  27 July 1997			  vga_fillblt(3)

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