Re: Testing for drawing fixes r30523

[Gregory Casamento]

Win2k is not so common as you might think:

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp

that data indicates that it's being used by about 0.4% of all users
worldwide.   While this might not be the most accurate assessment of
the actual installed base, I believe it's the best statistic we have.

There are a number of issues with continuing to use gdi:

1) issues with compositing
2) not hardware accelerated
3) officially deprecated and will not see either bug fixes or new features
4) will likely disappear in a future release of windows.

GC

On Friday, June 11, 2010, Riccardo Mottola <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can I use the updated GDI API introduced with Windows 2000? I doubt anyone
> is currently interested in deploying Windows applications on older Windows
> versions, but let me know… I'm interested in using SetWorldTransform() and
> similar to support stuff like rotation.
>
> Doug, if you are stuck because of the issues I introduced, feel free to roll
> back my changes (r30523 and 30524)…
>
>
>
> Yes, Windows2000 is fine. I use it regularly with GNUstep. W2K is itself 
> quite old but still widespread.
> What "older" could we support? Only WinNT4, because all the other windows 
> versions wouldn't be supported by recent mingw anymore, which now requires a 
> "Nt class" kernel. I don't have an NT4 machine available, I don't know if 
> anybody even tried GNUstep there the past *years*.
>
> If possible, however, I'd refrain from using XP only call and keep W2K 
> support.
>
> Riccardo
>
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