DIB Engine

[Mike McCormack]

satyr_22901 at yahoo.com wrote:

> After doing some digging it appears the problem is the current DIB
> engine or lack thereof (the DIBEngine page on the Wine wiki and the
> bugzilla bug it links to are very useful).  From what I can tell this
> has been a known shortcoming in Wine for at least 4.5 - 5 years, with a
> few partial patches created three or four years ago.  Is (or has) there
> any recent (less than a year old) work being done on creating a more
> efficient DIB engine for Wine?  If not, has anyone looked into using a
> library like EVAS or Cairo as a foundation for implementing it?

Have a look at:

http://wiki.winehq.org/DIBEngine

The reason it hasn't been done is because it's hard.  I'd recommend you 
have a go at fixing some other smaller bugs and getting used to Wine 
development before committing any time to working on a DIB engine.

Mike