[cairo] cairo with open GL backend

guhan senthilkumar guhan.senthilkumar at gmail.com
Fri Nov 19 04:34:05 PST 2010


Thanks a lot.Hey but what do you mean by "if your OpenGL is HW accelerated
then the drawing will be too??" . I thought any rendering done by OpenGL is
hardware accelerated. Is my assumption wrong??

Thanks and Regards,
Guhan.

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Alexandros Frantzis <
alexandros.frantzis at linaro.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 04:22:29PM +0530, guhan senthilkumar wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am trying to understand cairo with openGL backend.
> > Can anyone send me a sample application which uses cairo with openGL
> > backend?
>
> You can check the code in boilerplate/cairo-boilerplate-glx.c or
> ...-egl.c for an example of how to set up cairo-gl.
>
> > If by simply using the OpenGL backend for cairo , will the images
> rendered
> > be hardware accelerated??
>
> If your OpenGL is HW accelerated then the drawing will be too.
>
> Thanks,
> Alexandros
>
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