Christoph Egger wrote:
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> On Wed, 13 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > hi there. you probably remember that i was writing a terminal emulator
> > in ggi/freetype2. well, i never released it partly because it is quite
> > slow right now when scrolling. so my question is: what is the fastest
> > way to draw a character in a visual (mostly fbdev and x11)? i will
> > normally have an array where array[row][col] is the index of some
> > color. do i blit? do i simply ggiPutPixel every time?
>
> The correct way should be using libgft. It should handle
> font-acceleration, if already implemented.
I'm sorry, but that's nonsense. As we discussed earlier, this is the GGI
project, whith a strong accent on 'General' ('Generic' ?). Don't mandate
anything on top of that. FreeType is a wonderful package, and there is no
reason to be forced into any kind of wrapper library.
Stefan
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Stefan Seefeld
Departement de Physique
Universite de Montreal
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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