Re: Render API

"G O Economou" <[email protected]> Wed, 28 Aug 2002 12:09:41 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.xfree86.render
Message-ID <003601c24eb0$6d434150$1e05a8c0@medea>
So  what was the documentation that Eric referred to?
Your name is on it.  It looks like documentation.  Is it not documentation?


Georgina 
----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Packard" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: "Keith Packard" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 12:15 AM
Subject: Re: [Render] 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
>
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