Re: Render API

Around 23 o'clock on Aug 27, Eric Christopherson wrote:

> Where can I get documentation on the Render API?

There isn't currently any formal documentation for the Xrender library.  
As it is a very thin layer over the protocol itself, the protocol 
documentation plus the header file should be sufficient to figure out how 
it works.

There is one function in current CVS which you will want to avoid -- 
XRenderCompositeDoublePoly will disappear as soon as the Xr/Xc libraries 
are working well enough to replace it.  Xclock currently uses this
function to draw it's hands.  If Xr/Xc aren't ready in time for XFree86 
4.3, I'll remove both this function and the associated xclock code.

Keith Packard        XFree86 Core Team        HP Cambridge Research Lab