DIB engine

[Dan Kegel]

On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 12:45 AM, Stephan Rose <kermos at somrek.net> wrote:
>> If you're looking for something better specified, try finishing off
>> gdiplus.
> ... I'll check into gdiplus missing bits sometime next week. :)
>
> My name's Andrew Eikum, I'm an undergraduate Computer
> Science student at the University of Minnesota.
> I contacted a Wine dev a few weeks ago asking for a small
> project to use to get familiar with Wine.  I was pointed
> towards the gdiplus section and told to begin stubbing
> out the missing functions, to facilitate debugging.
> After familiarizing myself with how Wine's DLLs are built,
> and with Git, I'm now making quick progress.  I expect to
> have a (huge) patchset ready in the next week or two with
> most of the gdiplus functions stubbed.

Excellent!  (And Stephan, there's more than enough work
to go around, don't worry that Andrew's going to do it all :-)

> After that, I plan to begin work on implementing some of
> the functions.  My degree's emphasis is computer graphics,
> so working on gdiplus will give me a chance to learn more
> about the field as well as apply what I already know.
> I'm looking forward to working with other Wine devs on
> gdiplus, and other parts of Wine in the future.

That's great to hear.  Looking forward to seeing your patches.

BTW, don't forget to look at http://wiki.winehq.org/GdiPlus, which
has a few notes that might be helpful.  My archive of Lei's notes at
http://kegel.com/wine/sweng/2008/project.html
from last year might be useful, too - it was tailored
for people new to wine who want to contribute to gdiplus.
(Though its big list of bugs is mostly all fixed now, I think
only four remain.)
- Dan