Re: [boost] GUI coordinate units (Was: GUI foundations)

From: Joel de Guzman (joel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-10-05 11:04:28

Andreas Pokorny wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 09:03:38AM +0800, Joel de Guzman <joel_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> 
>>And while you are there, don't forget to see the small
>>"mono" "stereo" buttons. I never thought vector graphics can
>>be this good at this scale. Usually, one ends up drawing
>>such small widgets using bitmaps.
> 
> 
> Have you seen antigrain doing animations: 
> http://antigrain.com/stuff/particle_demo2.exe
> http://antigrain.com/stuff/page_demo.exe
> 
> These to examples are tests for a comercial project Maxim was writing at
> that time. These links were posted on the agg list several months ago. 
> They also work with wine, but the check and radio  button text in the 
> page demo does not show up there. I havent tried these demos in a native 
> windows environment yet, but even through the wine layer these two tests 
> are really fast. I think agg is a perfect choice for a gui library. 

That totally blew me away. At default settings with bitmap cache
enabled, I get 200+fps on a P4 3GHZ. Amazing!

Regards,
-- 
Joel de Guzman
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