Hi Micah,
> Just to let everyone know where they are in the queue :)
> Here's my current short-term todo list:
> 1. Write PGFX
> 2. Tomorrow (friday) night fix ez328 rotate bug
> 3. Re-test and fix ncursesinput
> 4. Make video drivers fast
Looks good for me. And if it's written by priority, very great : the
PGFX will be available for the 1st test very soon. I'm very happy, and
impatient to test.
> The PGFX interface functions themselves are nice short primitives,
> that operate on a pgcontext. The pgcontext contains a table of function
> pointers that implement the primitives, and it contains information
> about the rendering device.
The pgcontext structure seems fine for me. I'm just curious of what is
the device field. Is it just for example the canvas used when we create
the pgcontext with pgnewCanvasContext ?
> The app will obtain a pgcontext using a rendering-device-specific
> function, then render to it without regard to what it actually is (well,
> mostly). I have started a pgfx backend for the canvas widget. There will
> be an 'immediate' mode and a 'persistent' mode. The immediate mode will
> implement a more traditional drawing model where each group of
> primitives is packaged, sent to the server, and rendered, but not
> stored. The persistent mode would expose more of PicoGUI's gropnode
> manipulation functionality and allow the server to do more work for the
> client, at the cost of some complexity in the client.
Great ! The immediate mode is just what I need now for using PicoGUI
with the current Waba implementation.
> When the bitmap-based primitives in pgserver are available, a pgfx
> backend will be written for them allowing the app to easily switch
> rendering methods. (enable/disable double-buffer for example)
Seem also OK. I think I can use this for loading bitmap file (.bmp
Window$ files) when this will be available.
> I would suggest anyone interested in the client-side graphics
> operations take a glance through pgfx.h and make sure it's reasonable,
> because that's the API you'll be using :)
The API looks good for me. Thanks a lot.
Thanks for this good jobs, and have a nice day.
Olivier
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