[cairo] Win32/OpenGL

Eric Hughes eh-cairo at narthex.us
Mon Jan 16 14:41:00 PST 2006


>On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 17:29 +0100, Jonas Beckeman wrote:
> > Can't you use WPF as the backend? Should be a lot easier than DX, 
> and you'll
> > automatically get HW acceleration or fallback to software. I think.

At 01:28 PM 1/16/2006, Robert O'Callahan wrote:
>That would make every cairo-using Windows application depend on .NET,
>which isn't a good idea.

Windows is no longer a single platform.  Windows has used GDI, then 
GDI+, then DirectX in now 9 versions, and now something 
else.  "Win32" should be considered the prefix for the name of a 
platform, not the name of an entire platform.

Eric



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