Road to 1.0 (graphics driver architecture)

[Alexandre Julliard]

"Rolf Kalbermatter" <r.kalbermatter at hccnet.nl> writes:

> While the current apporach certainly works fine as far as invoking the
> DC specific functions without a lot of checking about the type of DC
> that is involved and therefore has a straightforward interface in GDI32
> I think the matching of the actual driver interface with the actual GDI
> functions adds a lot of overhead into the driver itself that could much
> more easily be done once in GDI and left out of the driver completely.
>
> However changing the driver interface to match the let's say W2K driver
> would be quite a bit of work although it would seem to me at least an
> idea. Coming up with yet a different Wine specific interface would first
> require some architectural design work too but maybe you have done
> something in that direction already.

No, I don't have any plans to change the GDI interface, and I don't
think any changes are necessary, the DC interface works fine for our
needs. The area that really needs refactoring for the quartz driver is
the user32 interface.

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Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org