A new SDL back-end we've been toying with

[Dimitrie O. Paun]

On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Gavriel State wrote:

> Now, the interesting thing is this: Once we have a GDI renderer, we can
> eliminate a *huge* amount of DIBSection cruft from the X11 driver.  Currently
> Wine goes through astounding manipulations to get X to draw things for
> us when we should be doing it ourselves.  This is very slow, and affects 
> more apps than you might think (ie: WordPerfect).

I know that we've had our share of problems from the lack of such
renderer. Currently, we ask X to do the work for us, as you describe. Now,
XFree86 is licensed under a Wine-compatible license. Why can't we simply
get the XFree86 code directly into Wine, to get our own renderer?

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Dimi.