Hello, > Slowness of MWF drawing comes from Cairo. MWF uses libgdiplus for drawing, > libgdiplus uses cairo/libpixmain backends for drawing and uses version > 0.3.0 of Cairo. Currently Cairo is version 0.5.2. The problem is that > Cairo isn't yet stable project as API is changed even on minor version > change. On mailing lists of Cairo there is talk of soon releasing of > version 1 which means freezing the API. But 'soon' could be month or year > by my opinion.
Although Cairo is known to be a part of the problem, another part of the equation might be the event loop processing. I do not remember the details, but Gtk+ spent quite a bit of time dealing with improving their main loop and event processing to improve performance. Miguel. _______________________________________________ Mono-winforms-list maillist - Mono-winforms-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list