Re: 2 pipe window application

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From: Angus Dorbie (dorbie++at++sgi.com)
Date: 04/13/2000 13:18:35

The practice normally used it to fallback on ever increasingly likely
visuals making the tradeoffs you deem appropriate for your application.

You shouldn't crash unless you assume erroneously that you got the
visual requested.

Cheers,Angus.

"Kaufman, Karen S" wrote:
>
> I am working on an application that uses two channels connected to two pipe
> windows. Depending on the frame buffer attributes I select, I may be able
> to open both windows successfully, or the application may crash when it
> tries to open the second window. Since I'm trying to write a general
> application that will run on more than one platform, how can I determine
> whether two sets of candidate attributes are compatible?
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