[syslinux] Comments sought on the graphical menu infrastructure

[H. Peter Anvin]

Peter Andersen wrote:
>>>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> Will it be hard to create some com32 drawing primitive functions for vesa ?
>> Like drawpixel, drawrect, drawfillrect ?
> 
> I have done that in gimp, saved it as .jpg an used it as the background.
> Ok it takes 2-3 try to get in rigth position but it looks damn good ;)
> That's so easy.
> 

Well, the original poster wants this to be dynamic so that he can use it 
in C code in real time.  This is a good thing.  However, designing a 
good graphics API is trickier than it sounds, and I would obviously 
prefer to use an API which is already well supported.

Another thing to keep in mind is that rather than drawing pixels and 
boxes in C code, it might look better to simply deal with small, 
transparent PNG images and have a good API for manipulating those.

	-hpa