RE: Tackling gdiplus?

2007-03-11 Thread Rolf Kalbermatter
Huw Davies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >It seems to me that gdiplus is a great project for an intern; it's scalable >and not 'all or nothing' unlike the dib engine. In looking at the DIB engine I feel that one of the biggest obstacles to get it done is integrating it in a way that it can be

Re: Tackling gdiplus?

2007-03-10 Thread Huw Davies
Dan Kegel wrote: So Huw, you sounded like you thought doing our own gdiplus was a good idea. How strongly do you feel about it? Think I should have somebody try to tackle a DIB engine instead? So I was talking to Ulrich a few days ago and he was moaning bitterly that a gdiplus app was very s

Re: Tackling gdiplus?

2007-03-09 Thread Dan Kegel
Huw wrote: Since Mono has implemented much of gdiplus already ( http://www.mono-project.com/Libgdiplus ), we ought to be able to just slurp that into Wine and get quite a ways. Except that's based on top of Cairo, whereas ours should be based on gdi32. But cairo has a win32 backend. So I thi

Re: Tackling gdiplus?

2007-03-09 Thread Huw Davies
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 10:35:20AM -0500, Ivan de Jesus Deras Tabora wrote: > On 3/9/07, Huw Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 10:50:30PM -0800, Dan Kegel wrote: > >> An increasing number of apps need gdiplus.dll. > >> Seems like it's time for Wine to include it. > > > >Y

Re: Tackling gdiplus?

2007-03-09 Thread Dmitry Timoshkov
"Ivan de Jesus Deras Tabora" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since Mono has implemented much of gdiplus already > ( http://www.mono-project.com/Libgdiplus ), > we ought to be able to just slurp that into Wine and > get quite a ways. Except that's based on top of Cairo, whereas ours should be based

Re: Tackling gdiplus?

2007-03-09 Thread Ivan de Jesus Deras Tabora
On 3/9/07, Huw Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 10:50:30PM -0800, Dan Kegel wrote: > An increasing number of apps need gdiplus.dll. > Seems like it's time for Wine to include it. Yes, absolutely. > Since Mono has implemented much of gdiplus already > ( http://www.mono-p

Re: Tackling gdiplus?

2007-03-09 Thread Huw Davies
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 10:50:30PM -0800, Dan Kegel wrote: > An increasing number of apps need gdiplus.dll. > Seems like it's time for Wine to include it. Yes, absolutely. > Since Mono has implemented much of gdiplus already > ( http://www.mono-project.com/Libgdiplus ), > we ought to be able to j

Re: Tackling gdiplus?

2007-03-09 Thread Ivan de Jesus Deras Tabora
So what would be the overall of the project? I'm interested in participating in this Google SoC, so this project sound interesting to me for this SoC 2007. Regards, Ivan On 3/9/07, Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: An increasing number of apps need gdiplus.dll. Seems like it's time for Wine

Tackling gdiplus?

2007-03-08 Thread Dan Kegel
An increasing number of apps need gdiplus.dll. Seems like it's time for Wine to include it. Since Mono has implemented much of gdiplus already ( http://www.mono-project.com/Libgdiplus ), we ought to be able to just slurp that into Wine and get quite a ways. Any objections? I'm thinking of asking