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[Thomas Fritzsche]

Hi dotgnu-hackers,

using cairo is prettty much the why the mono project would like to
implement SWF now after they droped the wine approach.

Why should dotgnu/mono invent the wheel new?
Do you think that it would make sense to work together at this issue?

Regards,
 Thomas



On Friday 16 July 2004 11:10 pm, Neil Cawse wrote:

> Rhys is alpha blend support possible with Xsharp? Maybe by grabbing the
> screen underneath the image we are blitting, combining and then writing
> back?

That will cause race conditions and screen artifacts due to the round-tri=
p=20
time to the server: if another window moves over the drawn area while you=
 are=20
manipulating the fetched image, then you will get invalid pixels in the a=
rea=20
that is uncovered.  It is also hideously inefficient.

The Xrender extension and/or Cairo is the correct way to do this, which w=
e=20
will tackle only after everything else works correctly.  The work needed =
is=20
mostly in System.Drawing.Xsharp and Xsharp, so it should not affect anyon=
e=20
working in System.Windows.Forms or System.Drawing.

Cheers,

Rhys.