Microsoft Windows CE 3.0  

Sample Display Drivers

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Windows CE Platform Builder 3.0 includes four sample display drivers for the CEPC platform: FLAT, ATI, S3Virge, and VGA8BPP, and five sample display drivers for the ODO platform. Code for these drivers is in the \Platform\CEPC\Drivers\Display\ and \Platform\ODO\Drivers\Display\ directories of your Platform Builder installation.

The following table lists the features supported by the CEPC sample display drivers.

  FLAT ATI S3Virge VGA8BPP
DLL name ddi_flat.dll ddi_ati.dll ddi_s3v.dll ddi_vga8.dll
Environment variable CEPC_DDI_FLAT CEPC_DDI_ATI CEPC_DDI_S3VIRGE CEPC_DDI_S3TRIO64
Color support Yes Yes Yes Yes
Bit depths 8, 16, 24 8, 16, 24, 32 8 8
Display resolutions Any, up to hardware limits   240x320, 320x200, 480x240, 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768 240x320, 320x200, 480x240, 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768
Software acceleration support Yes Yes Yes No
Hardware acceleration support No Yes Yes No
Line routines Software Software and Hardware Software and Hardware Software (Dirty Rectangle)
BLT routines Software Software and Hardware Hardware, Emulation, and Software Software (Dirty Rectangle)
Mouse cursor routines Software Hardware Hardware Software (Dirty Rectangle)
16 bit anti-aliased text support Yes Yes No No
Dirty rectangle driver No No No Yes

The following table lists the features supported by the ODO sample display drivers.

For all the sample display drivers, software acceleration is provided through emulation libraries, and hardware acceleration is limited to 2-D graphics operations.



 Last updated on Tuesday, July 13, 2004

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  Citizen 2bpp Citizen 8bpp Citizen 8bpp Dirty Rectangle SED1354
3-3-2 Color
SED1354 Grayscale
Subdirectory 2bpp citizen cit8bpdr Sed1354\color Sed1354\mono4bpp
Color support No Yes Yes Yes No
Bit depth 2 8 8 8 4
Resolution 320x240 320x240 320x240 320x240 320x240
Software acceleration Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Hardware acceleration No Yes Yes No No
Line routines Software Hardware, Software Hardware, Software Software Software
BLT routines Emulation, Software Emulation, Hardware, Software Emulation, Hardware, Software Emulation, Software Emulation, Software
Anti-aliased text No No No Yes No
Dirty rectangle driver No No Yes No No