directx gdk backend?

2007-02-10 Thread Michael Lawrence
Hi, From what I have read, it sounds like Windows Vista has regressed from XP in that it no longer offers any hardware acceleration for GDI. Does this mean that GDK will perform more slowly on Vista compared to XP? The performance of GDK is already slow when drawing lots of graphics, mostly due

Re: directx gdk backend?

2007-02-10 Thread Tor Lillqvist
Michael Lawrence writes: > From what I have read, it sounds like Windows Vista has regressed from XP in > that it no longer offers any hardware acceleration for GDI. Don't believe all you read. Not long ago, somebody claimed on gtk-list that Vista wouldn't support the traditional Win32 API at al

Re: directx gdk backend?

2007-02-10 Thread Michael Lawrence
On 2/10/07, Tor Lillqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Michael Lawrence writes: > From what I have read, it sounds like Windows Vista has regressed from XP in > that it no longer offers any hardware acceleration for GDI. Don't believe all you read. Not long ago, somebody claimed on gtk-list that

Re: directx gdk backend?

2007-02-10 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 06:35 -0600, Michael Lawrence wrote: > Since MS is putting all of its efforts into DirectX now, would it make > sense to move to that for drawing? Does it even make sense to still look at GDK drawing performance when most (or at least more and more) drawing is done via

Re: Adding foreign_new_xdisplay for Gdk X11

2007-02-10 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
El mar, 06-02-2007 a las 16:43 +, Ricardo Cruz escribió: > I am writting a Qt style that uses GTK+ to render its stuff; the inverse of > gtk-qt-engine [1], and so I need to re-use the Qt Display connection. Nice! This would even help for gradually porting ancient non-GTK+ software to the n