Re: display problem on x86-64bit / cairo

[Fred Kiefer]

Sounds like a plan we all agree on. I will make the DPS changes next week and 
then start to work on the Opal bavkend together with Ivan. There are two open 
issues I know about, font handling and stored gstates. For both we need a 
solution before that backend is fully working, the rest should be fairly simple.

Fred

On the road

Am 02.02.2013 um 07:48 schrieb David Chisnall <address@hidden>:

> On 1 Feb 2013, at 16:55, Ivan Vučica wrote:
> 
>> Moving to an Opal backend and then making the graphics context available via 
>> -[NSGraphicsContext graphicsPort] would be something I wouldn't oppose in 
>> any way. I wonder why ;-)
>> 
> 
> Using the CoreGraphics API as our back end interface is definitely something 
> that I would support in the medium to long term, but it requires a fair bit 
> of work.  Just changing the DPS functions to CGFloat for now and getting an 
> Opal back end that uses the CoreGraphics APIs would be a good start.
> 
> David
> 
> -- Sent from my Apple II
>