Tackling gdiplus?
Huw Davies
huw at codeweavers.com
Fri Mar 9 10:51:39 CST 2007
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 10:35:20AM -0500, Ivan de Jesus Deras Tabora wrote:
> On 3/9/07, Huw Davies <huw at codeweavers.com> wrote:
> >On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 10:50:30PM -0800, Dan Kegel wrote:
> >> An increasing number of apps need gdiplus.dll.
> >> Seems like it's time for Wine to include it.
> >
> >Yes, absolutely.
> >
> >> Since Mono has implemented much of gdiplus already
> >> ( http://www.mono-project.com/Libgdiplus ),
> >> we ought to be able to just slurp that into Wine and
> >> get quite a ways.
> >
> >Except that's based on top of Cairo, whereas ours should be based on
> >gdi32.
>
> But cairo has a win32 backend. So I think we can use mono-libgdiplus.
Even if we wanted to do it that way, it wouldn't work; gdiplus exposes
gdi32 handles, so we'd somehow have to get these through Cairo.
Huw.
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