Work on WineQuartz for MacOSX

[Roderick Colenbrander]

The fact that Cocoa is objective C is one of the issues (Charles Davis
made some C wrapper I think). The most problematic thing is that it
really need is a DIB engine. The Cocoa graphics APIs are similar to
Cairo / XRender / Direct2D and other modern APIs. These APIs are great
for vector drawing, alpha blending and other fancy operations but they
are not low-level 2D APIs. For instance they lack most classic
(bitwise) 2D ROPs. The classic rendering stuff (Windows 7 does it this
way as well) has to be performed in software by a DIB engine.

Roderick

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 6:02 PM, C.W. Betts <computers57 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> If memory serves, the main reason why there hasn't been any work done is because of the dependency of Objective-C, which the project administrator has said "no" to.
> On May 16, 2010, at 9:31 AM, James Mckenzie wrote:
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>> There was or is a quite lengthy thread on this project.
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>> What is the status of work?  Any progress on Emmanuel's work from 2008?
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>> Thank you.
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>> James McKenzie
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