Re: GDI+ backend update

[Christopher Armstrong]

Alex Perez wrote:

> Is this something that could eventually actually be integrated into the 
> GNUstep-back source officially somehow? eg. make configure check for 
> either the existance of gdiplus.dll on non-xp systems or for gdi32.dll 
> on XP systems (I don't seem to have a separate gdiplus.dll on my XP SP2 
> machine, so I guess the new functionality is rolled into the main GDI DLL?)
>
>   
It shouldn't be too hard to integrate into the backend (if you download 
the package, you will note that it makes use of the win32 server anyway, 
so it is integrated with the backend). configure shouldn't check for the 
existence of gdiplus.dll (it's bundled with Windows XP), instead, it 
should test for Windows XP. It also should be optional to turn on, as it 
does have limitations as to what it can achieve, should  be 
theoretically slower than the GDI backend and is still very 
proof-of-concept (it has numerous errors and still depends on GDI for 
font handling).  The reason for writing it then is actually correctness; 
it seems able to handle a few things that GDI can't, such as sub-pixel 
handling and I have it correctly displaying bitmaps (albeit not rotated).

Regards
Chris



Regards