[cairo] Win32/OpenGL

Robert O'Callahan rocallahan at novell.com
Mon Jan 16 12:28:15 PST 2006


On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 17:29 +0100, Jonas Beckeman wrote:
> (second attempt; seems replying to cairo-list mails goes to the sender
> instead of the list... Strange)
> 
> 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.
> It'll probably be a while before the majority of XP users have installed
> WinFX, but if the implementation is significantly easier it might be a
> tradeoff that makes sense?

That would make every cairo-using Windows application depend on .NET,
which isn't a good idea.

Rob



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