Mikko L wrote: > Michael Sweet wrote: >> Daniel Polski wrote: >>> >>> Is anti aliased drawing of lines and curves and shapes something that >>> would be possible to have as a feature in the next generation of fltk? >> >> It is already available on Mac OS X with Quartz. If you use Cairo >> (something we only support in 2.0 right now) you will also get >> anti-aliased drawing on all platforms. >> >>> And transparency? >> >> Right now we support alpha-blending of images, but there is no >> general blending support in FLTK. Again, using Quartz or Cairo >> gets us this "for free". >> >> However, while it should be fairly straight-forward to use Cairo on >> 1.x (whatever future minor release), Cairo on X11 unfortunately >> requires TrueColor visuals (no PseudoColor support) which makes it a >> non-starter since companies like Sun still ship with X servers >> configured for PseudoColor... :( >> > > And besides that, I still think we need to support native interfaces also. > I'm thinking cairo on 200Mhz ARM w/o FPU... No way! :)
Actually, recent versions of Cairo work very well on systems without a FPU - they've done a *lot* of optimization for that use case... (but again, the lack of support for PseudoColor visuals makes it a non-starter for FLTK, at least as a default build option...) -- ______________________________________________________________________ Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products mike at easysw dot com Internet Printing and Document Software http://www.easysw.com _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
