DirectX 2D?

[Dan Kegel]

I looked at the ie9 preview.
You have to set the windows version to 7, but then it
needs ie8 and "directx 2d" installed.

I've added a win7 verb to winetricks, and would accept an ie8 verb patch
if someone sent it, but I suspect DirectX 2D might be a tough
nut to crack.

[Roderick Colenbrander]

Direct2D support might not be that far away though and we MIGHT be
able to use the native dll for now (depending on how it is
implemented). The library is build on top of DXGI which is the toolkit
on top of which Direct3D10/11 are build as well. It is responsible for
things like communication with the kernel, buffer management,
videocard/monitor enumeration and some 2D related tasks.

I had a quick look at our DXGI code and I don't think it is complete
enough (the surface and swapchain code is unimplemented) but it is not
something which would take months to implement. Perhaps it would have
been a useful gsoc project but it is hard to see results since I don't
think there are standalone DXGI apps.

Roderick

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Dan Kegel  wrote:
> I looked at the ie9 preview.
> You have to set the windows version to 7, but then it
> needs ie8 and "directx 2d" installed.
>
> I've added a win7 verb to winetricks, and would accept an ie8 verb patch
> if someone sent it, but I suspect DirectX 2D might be a tough
> nut to crack.

[Henri Verbeet]

On 16 March 2010 20:49, Roderick Colenbrander  wrote:
> Direct2D support might not be that far away though and we MIGHT be
> able to use the native dll for now (depending on how it is
> implemented). The library is build on top of DXGI which is the toolkit
> on top of which Direct3D10/11 are build as well. It is responsible for
> things like communication with the kernel, buffer management,
> videocard/monitor enumeration and some 2D related tasks.
>
> I had a quick look at our DXGI code and I don't think it is complete
> enough (the surface and swapchain code is unimplemented) but it is not
> something which would take months to implement. Perhaps it would have
> been a useful gsoc project but it is hard to see results since I don't
> think there are standalone DXGI apps.

You probably shouldn't make claims like that when you don't know how
dxgi and the client libraries fit together :-\ What it comes down to
is that using the native D2D library is unlikely to work.

[Tom Wickline]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 3:00 AM, Dan Kegel  wrote:
> I looked at the ie9 preview.
> You have to set the windows version to 7, but then it
> needs ie8 and "directx 2d" installed.
>
> I've added a win7 verb to winetricks, and would accept an ie8 verb patch
> if someone sent it, but I suspect DirectX 2D might be a tough
> nut to crack.

IE 9 is also going to also need  DirectWrite support, third link below.

A couple of nice articles about Direct2D at blogs.msdn

http://blogs.msdn.com/directx/archive/2009/05/12/2d-drawing-apis-in-windows....
http://blogs.msdn.com/directx/archive/2009/12/12/animated-2d-graphics-for-ui...
http://blogs.msdn.com/directx/archive/2009/11/18/internet-explorer-announces...
and
http://blogs.msdn.com/directx/archive/tags/Direct2D/default.aspx

Tom

[Reece Dunn]

On 16 March 2010 19:00, Dan Kegel  wrote:
> I looked at the ie9 preview.
> You have to set the windows version to 7, but then it
> needs ie8 and "directx 2d" installed.

Does it work by faking an IE8 install (version, registry, etc.).
> I've added a win7 verb to winetricks, and would accept an ie8 verb patch
> if someone sent it,

I have some success with using the IE7 script. But I get:

fixme:service:svcctl_CreateServiceW Dependencies not supported yet
  CreateService SUCCESS.
  err:rpc:I_RpcReceive we got fault packet with status 0x3e6
  CreateService: Failed to set Service description. Error: 0x3e6

on install, it does not want to connect to a web page (it is forever
stuck on showing "Connecting..."), and does not want to close:

err:ntdll:NtQueryInformationToken Unhandled Token Information class 18!
  err:ntdll:NtQueryInformationToken Unhandled Token Information class 18!
  err:ntdll:NtQueryInformationToken Unhandled Token Information class 18!
  fixme:ole:NdrCorrelationInitialize (0x13dd7d8, 0x13dd3d8, 1024, 0x0): stub
  fixme:storage:PropertyStorage_WritePropertyToStream unsupported type: 72
  fixme:storage:PropertyStorage_WritePropertyToStream unsupported type: 72

It also produces a load of err and fixme traces on startup and while running.
> but I suspect DirectX 2D might be a tough
> nut to crack.
> From what I can tell, Microsoft only provide a Direct2D install for

Vista via a Windows Update; otherwise, you need Windows 7.

This means that Wine will need to provide its own implementation.

Also, the Firefox team have also been working on Direct2D/DirectWrite
support [1] [2], so that may also be useful.

NOTE: The Direct2D/DirectWrite APIs are built on top of the Direct3D
10 APIs (see, e.g. the Firefox patches and discussions on testing the
feature), so needs a decent(ish) implementation of D3D 10 first.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=527707
[2] http://www.basschouten.com/blog1.php

- Reece