Enc: Res: Documentation about X Render Extension Library

Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) raster at rasterman.com
Tue May 8 15:40:21 PDT 2007


On Tue, 8 May 2007 09:57:50 -0700 (PDT) Rafael Rieder
<rafaelrieder at yahoo.com.br> babbled:

no - i don't. i figured it out by sample code and experimentation :)

> Hi all,
>  
> Thanks for the answers.
> In fact my use is not dummy at all. I'm working in a graphics library just
> like Cairo that needs to have XRender support. I found an old documentation
> about the XRender Library (0.7). But it does not have the documentation of
> several XRender functions. Does anyone knows about an updated documentation?
> BTW I already looked into Cairo source code and it did not find it very
> inspiring. I will take a look at the evas's xrender engine. Thanks,
> 
> Rafael
> 
> ----- Mensagem original ----
> De: Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org>
> Para: Rafael Rieder <rafaelrieder at yahoo.com.br>
> Cc:
>  xorg at lists.freedesktop.org
> Enviadas: Segunda-feira, 30 de Abril de 2007 13:48:17
> Assunto: Re: Documentation about X Render Extension Library
> 
> On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 07:44:10 -0700 (PDT), Rafael Rieder wrote:
> > I also compiled and executed the XClock example, trying to
> > understand the library use and functioning - but, I need more
> > information about functions (parameters, description, ...),
> > something for dummies :-)
> 
> One reason you're not finding more documentation and examples is that
> the X Render library is a particularly low-level interface that isn't
> really intended to be used by dummies. So that documentation might
> never exist.
> 
> You might be more interested by using the cairo graphics library which
> sits on top of the X Render library and provides a much more
> high-level interface, and a bit more documentation, (though it could
> always use more).
> 
> > If any person could help me in this started
>  work, I'd thanks so much.
> 
> But I don't know exactly what it is you're trying to do, so I can't
> really say if cairo is a good fit or not. But give it a look at least:
> 
>     http://cairographics.org
> 
> -Carl
> 
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