Re[2]: [Gnash-dev] Re: point test

[Bastiaan Jacques]

On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Bastiaan Jacques wrote:

> The OpenGL renderer takes the result of the normalization process and
> then proceeds to extract contours from the paths (by seeing which paths
> connect), which it can then feed into the tesselator.
>
> I am still not sure if this is required for Cairo, because although our
> Cairo renderer gets filling right 99% of the time, there is still the
> 1%. Also, I have seen code in Swfdec which does exactly as I described
> in the paragraphs above (swfdec uses Cairo).

I've ran a few tests and I am confirming that Cairo can only deal with
normalized and connected paths. So the process described above for
OpenGL will also apply to Cairo. I guess this means that AGG is truly
superior when it comes to rendering Flash.

Bastiaan