On 1 Jan 2021, at 4:44 am, Chris Sherlock wrote:
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> Parallel task: decouple metafile recording from drawing functionality
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> My plan for this is to do the following:
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> 1. I create a RenderContext2 class which OutputDevice derives from
> 2. Carefully and gradually move the drawing code into
On Wednesday 30 of December 2020, Chris Sherlock wrote:
> I propose that it might be worthwhile moving the fallback code back into
> SalGraphics itself. Any new primitive functions need to have fallback code,
> or we mandate that any new backends must implement the primitive function.
> My POC can
Hi Chris,
Chris Sherlock wrote:
> I’m assuming that we obviously rely on GDI+ now?
>
Yeah, but it's hopefully on the way out with skia shaping up.
> What is your opinion of the fallback code being placed in SalGraphics?
>
Makes sense to me, to consolidate fallbacks into one place. Just be
aware
> On 2 Jan 2021, at 9:48 am, Thorsten Behrens wrote:
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> Chris Sherlock wrote:
>> OutputDevice relies of VirtualDevice for alpha blending
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>> What can I say? It’s an extraordinary hack and has been that way for
>> a long time.
>>
> Rooted in history, too. I did that hack many years ago, as
Chris Sherlock wrote:
> OutputDevice relies of VirtualDevice for alpha blending
>
> What can I say? It’s an extraordinary hack and has been that way for
> a long time.
>
Rooted in history, too. I did that hack many years ago, as Win32 GDI
had no good way to render into ARGB surfaces - and GDI+ was
Hi Chris,
first off - great to see you tackling OutDev, which I agree is a
terrible hairball.
Chris Sherlock wrote:
> After this we need to start to tackle the issue of having to push
> state around. IMO, we seem to have done this because that’s the way
> a meta file does things. I do t believe t
So I have a plan of attack that will alleviate some of these problems.
It’s really a two pronged attack, which is actually just a gradual migration of
code that can be done gradually. The two tasks are:
Task: migrate fallback code out of OutputDevice and into SalGraphics.
I have already starte
Hi all,
Firstly, let me preface this by saying that most of you are far more
experienced than I am with LibreOffice and C++. But in reality, you all know
that LO is a bit of a hairball. When I started working on LibreOffice (and
making many mistakes) it literally took me years to understand ho
