[cairo] Bringing back the dead... RGB16_565

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at behdad.org
Mon Feb 2 03:19:57 PST 2009


I don't think it has any comeback in its future.

Most of the situations where RGB16_565 may be needed, create_similar() does a
better job.

behdad

Richard Meng wrote:
> I am expecting the same answer of this question, anyone will update ?
> 
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Niranjan H <nmlist at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>   I am working on a platform which has RGB16_565 surface.
>> I would like to know if there is any progress towards bringing back
>> RGB16_565 onto Cairo.
>>
>> I saw this posting some time back :
>> http://lists.cairographics.org/archives/cairo/2007-May/010658.html
>>
>> I saw the bugs also at
>> http://lists.cairographics.org/archives/cairo/2007-May/010669.html
>> Most of them are marked as RESOLVED/FIXED,
>> but still I see that 565 is marked deprecated in 1.8.6
>>
>> typedef enum _cairo_format {
>>     /* The value of 4 is reserved by a deprecated enum value.
>>      * The next format added must have an explicit value of 5.
>>     CAIRO_FORMAT_RGB16_565 = 4,
>>     */
>> } cairo_format_t;
>>
>> Can some one throw some light on what is the current status and  future for
>> RGB565 (if any) ?
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Niranjan H
>>
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