Squall Leonhart Wrote:

xKiv Wrote:You could *also* just make the window a little bit taller and put a scrolling log (history) of messages there ... preferably with a timestamp (and I would appreciate a current time indicator too .

Definitely not, GDI detracts from emulation performance as it is without further adding more gdi objects, VBA already has a logging window, we can improve upon this instead
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1) How *much* does GDI detract from emulation performance?
2) How does "add (an GUI element)" imply "use GDI" - especially with the SDL or QT port?

First approximation: stretch the emulated display surface a bit below what is rendered now + use that new "screen estate" to render log and status messages, similar to the way they are rendered *over* the current display.
The worst problem I see with that approach is filters ... but VBAM already has its own routines for rendering text, right? Just resize (maybe even using the filters) the glyphs when the surface resizes ...

Of course, if I didn't have to focus on my diploma thesis, I would have already gone and started coding ... stupid real life


EDIT: besides, you already have your titlebar and menu (at least in the non-SDL ports), no?