Re: GDI+ backend update

[Alex Perez]

Christopher Armstrong wrote:
> I know this is a bit late from the date of the package below, but for 
> some reason this mailing list seems to bounce alot of my messages...
>
> I've got some updates to the GDI+ backend stuff I've been working on 
> over the past 6 months (on and off). Mostly improvements with the 
> compositing engine (it seems to clip properly now) and images, which 
> should be properly byte-swapped for both 32bit and 24bit.
>
> Find a copy at:
> http://members.optusnet.com.au/~smokey27/back-svn-20060228+gdiplus.tbz2
>
> Remember that you will need a copy of gdipluswrappers and gdiplus.dll. 
> The latter can be obtained from Microsoft's web site (only if you're not 
> running Windows XP), and gdipluswrappers can be found at:
>
> http://members.optusnet.com.au/~smokey27/gdiplus-wrappers-20051201.tar.bz2
>
> (I have the sinking suspicion that the version of gdipluswrappers above 
> won't work with the gdiplus-back specified above. If it doesn't, I'll 
> post an update or a patch).
>
> I welcome any comments or suggestions; contact me on the email address 
> below. From here, I need to add font support for GDI+ (it still uses 
> GDI), and work out how to use the TransparentBlt function with 
> transformations so that we can do rotated composites, and it should be 
> mostly complete.

Is this something that could eventually actually be integrated into the 
GNUstep-back source officially somehow? eg. make configure check for 
either the existance of gdiplus.dll on non-xp systems or for gdi32.dll 
on XP systems (I don't seem to have a separate gdiplus.dll on my XP SP2 
machine, so I guess the new functionality is rolled into the main GDI DLL?)

Have you signed a copyright assignment? I'm pretty sure you have.

> Cheers
> Christopher Armstrong
> carmstrong at fastmail dot com dot au