Re: Tackling gdiplus?

[Huw Davies]

On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 10:35:20AM -0500, Ivan de Jesus Deras Tabora wrote:
> On 3/9/07, Huw Davies  wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 10:50:30PM -0800, Dan Kegel wrote:
> > > An increasing number of apps need gdiplus.dll.
> > > Seems like it's time for Wine to include it.
> >
> > Yes, absolutely.
> > > Since Mono has implemented much of gdiplus already
> > > ( http://www.mono-project.com/Libgdiplus ),
> > > we ought to be able to just slurp that into Wine and
> > > get quite a ways.
> >
> > Except that's based on top of Cairo, whereas ours should be based on
> > gdi32.
>
> But cairo has a win32 backend.  So I think  we can use mono-libgdiplus.

Even if we wanted to do it that way, it wouldn't work; gdiplus exposes
gdi32 handles, so we'd somehow have to get these through Cairo.

Huw.