Problems with OutputDevice

Thorsten Behrens thb at libreoffice.org
Fri Jan 1 22:46:40 UTC 2021


Chris Sherlock wrote:
> OutputDevice relies of VirtualDevice for alpha blending
> 
> What can I say? It’s an extraordinary hack and has been that way for
> a long time.
>
Rooted in history, too. I did that hack many years ago, as Win32 GDI
had no good way to render into ARGB surfaces - and GDI+ was not
necessarily available on all of our baseline OS versions.

And yeah, this code has to die. ;)

Cheers,

-- Thorsten
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