Cool. But the folks in the GTK2HS mailing list told me Glitz never really took of :-(
I hope they are wrong :) On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Claus Reinke <claus.rei...@talk21.com> wrote: >> I should have mentioned that my tests have been done only on Windows and >> OSX. >> I guess I would have to try on a system that supports XRender to compare. >> >> Unfortunately, the target audience of our application are mostly windows >> and >> OSX users, so although it would be great that Cairo performs fast on unix >> variants, it would be of little value to us, unless of course XRender also >> runs on Windows/OSX somehow :) > > from the glitz page I refered to: > > The semantics of glitz are designed to precisely match the > specification of the X Render extension. Glitz does not only implement > X Render features like component alpha and image transformations, but > also support for additional features like convolution filters and > color gradients, which are not currently part of the X Render > specification. > The performance and capabilities of glitz are much dependent on > graphics hardware. Glitz does not in any way handle software > fall-backs when graphics hardware is insufficient. However, glitz will > report if any requested operation cannot be carried out by graphics > hardware, hence making a higher level software layer responsible for > appropriate actions. > Glitz can be used as a stand-alone layer above OpenGL but is also > designed to act as a backend for cairo, providing it with OpenGL > accelerated output. > That's why it would be good to know whether glitz is still supported > (and compatible with current cairo): it, or something like it, would > provide direct access to hardware-accelerated cairo functionality on > all OpenGL platforms (without the current Haskell-land dependency of cairo > on Gtk2hs; though software fallbacks for missing hardware support would seem > essential). > > Claus > > |There seem to be some older references to an OpenGL backend for Cairo > | > | http://www.cairographics.org/OpenGL/ > | http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/glitz > | http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix04/tech/freenix/nilsson.html > > > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
