Re: SOC project

[Raphael]

On Wednesday 19 April 2006 20:26, Lionel Ulmer wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 10:59:14AM +0200, Willie Sippel wrote:
> > I'd guess the DIB engine proposal would help there as well. One of the
> > most important improvements, IMHO. Windowed OpenGL support would be nice
> > as well, for game level editors (and many other things)... :-)
>
> The DIB engine would only help some games (from my experience, I would
> guess 5 % of the old DirectX <= 7 games which uses GetDC). For all other
> games, it has absolutely no impact at all.

But MS thought about you:

new Dx9 APIs:
  IDirect3DSurface9::GetDC
  IDirect3DSurface9::ReleaseDC

Anyway fixing the DIB engine will improve a lot professional applications as 
photoshop, ...
>       Lionel

Regards,
Raphael