Sune
Wed Nov 23 09:54:29 CST 2005
Hi Dave, thanks.
Mostly I draw roadmaps, so line and polygon functions
are important.
I'm not sure where I'm going to go from here, but I will
take a look at PTDev :)
-Sune
"dave" <dave@parystec.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> I should have mentioned that PTDev does include full
> handling of blitter objects including rotation and scaling
> and colourkey etc. - We hadn't added fancy line draws
> or polydraw/polyfill as it's a library mainly designed
> for handling blitter objects rather than basic shapes.
>
> "dave" <dave@parystec.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> > Hi Sune,
> >
> > 3 alternatives (for C++ anyway):
> >
> > PocketFrog/PocketHal (freeware I think)
> > GapiDraw (commercial)
> > PTDev (commercial)
> >
> > Our own blitter library software is PTDev and includes bitmap
> > text with full Word2003-like control of formatting etc. - I don't
> > think PocktFrog/PocketHal or GapiDraw provide full text handling
> > such as justification,alignment, font change etc.
> >
> >
http://www.parystec.com/
> >
http://www.parystec.demon.co.uk/PT-dev_content.html
> >
> > At the moment PTDev is officially "beta" but only because I'm in the
> > process of adding/completing sprite animation classes in the library :-)
> > All the standard DirectDraw-like functionality is complete, except we
> > haven't got a "fancy" line draw or polydraw/polyfill yet (though we do
> have
> > rectdraw and fill) - should you be interested in using PTDev we could
make
> > adding these a higher priority :-)
> >
> > bye
> > Dave
> >
> > "Sune" <sf@aol.com> wrote in message
> > news:%236BLYPq7FHA.1148@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I've been using GDI for my, by now rather large XP/CE, MFC program.
> > >
> > > I'm not all that happy with GDI, it seems limited in
> > > functionally and speed so I'm looking for something
> > > faster and more versatile.
> > >
> > > I don't need any alpha-blending stuff, just some
> > > fast and pretty line drawing, polyfills, bitmap rotations and
> > > the ability to switch into fullscreen mode.
> > >
> > > I suspect GDI+ would almost be sufficient, but AFAIK
> > > it's not supported on PocketPC.
> > >
> > > I'm not thrilled by the idea of implementing DirectDraw in a big MFC
> > > program,
> > > and I read somewhere that it wouldn't offer much of a speed
improvement.
> > >
> > > Then there is GAPI, but IIRC it doesn't support text drawing which I
> also
> > > need.
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Sune
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
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