Re: gdi -> gdi+ in a programm
"Bogdan" <bogdan@domain.com> wrote in message
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I guess it all depends on the app. Last year I moved an app from
DirectDraw to GDI+. It might sound like an insane thing to do but it
worked for me. The quality of text was excellent. I didn't have to worry
about the delay because the app ran on its own and had enough time to
pre-render a full page of text (1280x720, 26 point) one frame at a time.
The inter-frame delay was used for offscreen rendering.
I guess that in your case you had to render the text on user request and
you probably could not pre-render it before blitting it onto the screen.
Unfortunately, that was the case. We put up a full-screen text menu, and as
the user pressed up/down arrows, the selected line in the text was repainted
with a highlight. The delay was pretty bad, it would take about 1.5 seconds
to repaint. Thus the UI was very sluggish (but very beautiful).
Supposedly, there is some GDI+ acceleration at a driver level. I'm not
sure if it applies to all graphics hardware.
It was several years ago, but at the time, there was no solution to speeding
it up.
I've been working with Direct3D and its Font.DrawText() for some time.
The performance is impressive but quality of text output is hard to get
used to after working with GDI+.
OP mentioned drawing of UI controls so performance should not be an issue.
I don't know, I also used GDI+ to draw .png background images in a dialog
and also for owner drawn buttons. The performance was acceptable, but still
sluggish compared to GDI.
Cheers,
David
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