[Xr] Clipping to rectangles

[Bill Spitzak]

On Wednesday 04 June 2003 12:53 pm, Carl Worth wrote:

> I think it may make sense to support two separate notions of
> clipping. The first, (XrClip), is a PostScript-like clip defined with
> a path, (with the conventional user space -> device space
> transformation).

No, the high-speed clipping interface must be accessible through the 
transformed coordinates. Otherwise it could not be used to draw scalable or 
rotated user interfaces, or to draw a postage-stamp of the user interface, or 
to reuse the same code to output a picture of the gui to a printer. Saying 
that widgets or windows must be restricted to integer pixel boundaries seems 
very shortsighted to me.

Having two seperate clips, one supposedly for the toolkits and one for the 
user, might make sense, but I don't like the sound of it. Having two 
interfaces for very similar things sounds contrary to the Xr design.

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