[cairo] Re: Notes on cairo/win32

[Miguel de Icaza]

Hey,

> > From rom what I've figured out so far, the main two things that GDI+
> > gives over GDI which are useful to us are anti-aliased paths and
> > alpha-composited primitives.
> 
> A major downside to GDI+ from my point of view is that it appears that  
> even the "Flat" API is actually in C++ (eg., GdipCreatePath takes a  
> GpPath **, where GpPath is a class). It's also not supported in mingw32  
> yet. There is a patch out there:

It is the other way around.  

The GDI+ C++ interface is implemented on top of the C-based GDI+ flat
API .

Miguel