DirectX 2D?

[Tom Wickline]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 3:00 AM, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:

> I looked at the ie9 preview.
> You have to set the windows version to 7, but then it
> needs ie8 and "directx 2d" installed.
>
> I've added a win7 verb to winetricks, and would accept an ie8 verb patch
> if someone sent it, but I suspect DirectX 2D might be a tough
> nut to crack.
>
>
>
IE 9 is also going to also need  DirectWrite support, third link below.

A couple of nice articles about Direct2D at blogs.msdn

http://blogs.msdn.com/directx/archive/2009/05/12/2d-drawing-apis-in-windows.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/directx/archive/2009/12/12/animated-2d-graphics-for-ui-games-and-demos.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/directx/archive/2009/11/18/internet-explorer-announces-to-use-directwrite-direct2d.aspx
and
http://blogs.msdn.com/directx/archive/tags/Direct2D/default.aspx

Tom
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