On Sunday 20 March 2011 22:29:34 Joshua Beck wrote:
I erred on the side of caution because I didn't want to spend all summer working on a project that I couldn't finish.
Finding the right amount of work is certainly tricky. Luckily d3dx9 has many functions, so if you find out that you have plenty of time left you can include extra work in your project later on. You don't have to get the set of work perfect at the start - reevaluating the amount of work needed and adjusting the goals during the project is part of gsoc.
However, finding a most likely doable, but not overly simple set of work does improve the application. We'll provide feedback on this(as I just did, I hope others who know the library better will jump in if I am telling you incorrect things)
However I do have other ideas that I would also like to implement. For instance, I would be willing to implement the D3DXSave[Surface/Texture]ToFile* functions for all file formats currently supported by WINE.
Wrt this specific function we already have some related infrastructure for D3DXLoadSurfaceFrom* . Also other parts of Wine(gdi32.dll, windowscodecs.dll) have functions for handling various on-disk file formats which can(and should) be used. (That's just some generic implementation hint, it doesn't mean that it makes the idea good or bad)
On 03/20/2011 05:42 PM, Stefan Dösinger wrote:
Wrt this specific function we already have some related infrastructure for D3DXLoadSurfaceFrom* . Also other parts of Wine(gdi32.dll, windowscodecs.dll) have functions for handling various on-disk file formats which can(and should) be used. (That's just some generic implementation hint, it doesn't mean that it makes the idea good or bad)
Is there any documentation I can read on how to program for these DLLs? I've been looking through MSDN and I can't find anything specifically about those DLLs. However I did find Windows Imaging Component (which I think is what windowscodecs.dll implements) and that seems like it would be helpful for the D3DXSaveSurfaceTo* functions.
On Friday 25 March 2011 08:40:04 Joshua Beck wrote:
Is there any documentation I can read on how to program for these DLLs? I've been looking through MSDN and I can't find anything specifically about those DLLs. However I did find Windows Imaging Component (which I think is what windowscodecs.dll implements) and that seems like it would be helpful for the D3DXSaveSurfaceTo* functions.
gdi32 is the classic Windows graphics API used by pretty much every application for drawing text, bitmaps, lines etc. It has some functions to load bitmaps from files. windowscodecs handles the newer formats I think, so it is probably what you want. You can make use of both dlls too.
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