Work on WineQuartz for MacOSX

[James Mckenzie]

All:

There was or is a quite lengthy thread on this project.

What is the status of work?  Any progress on Emmanuel's work from 2008?

Thank you.

James McKenzie

[C.W. Betts]

If memory serves, the main reason why there hasn't been any work done is because of the dependency of Objective-C, which the project administrator has said "no" to.
On May 16, 2010, at 9:31 AM, James Mckenzie wrote:
> All:
>
> There was or is a quite lengthy thread on this project.
>
> What is the status of work?  Any progress on Emmanuel's work from 2008?
>
> Thank you.
>
> James McKenzie

[Roderick Colenbrander]

The fact that Cocoa is objective C is one of the issues (Charles Davis
made some C wrapper I think). The most problematic thing is that it
really need is a DIB engine. The Cocoa graphics APIs are similar to
Cairo / XRender / Direct2D and other modern APIs. These APIs are great
for vector drawing, alpha blending and other fancy operations but they
are not low-level 2D APIs. For instance they lack most classic
(bitwise) 2D ROPs. The classic rendering stuff (Windows 7 does it this
way as well) has to be performed in software by a DIB engine.

Roderick

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 6:02 PM, C.W. Betts  wrote:
> If memory serves, the main reason why there hasn't been any work done is because of the dependency of Objective-C, which the project administrator has said "no" to.
> On May 16, 2010, at 9:31 AM, James Mckenzie wrote:
> > All:
> >
> > There was or is a quite lengthy thread on this project.
> >
> > What is the status of work?  Any progress on Emmanuel's work from 2008?
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > James McKenzie