Re: anti-aliased lines in X

Mark Vojkovich <[email protected]> Thu, 18 Apr 2002 16:58:53 -0700 (PDT)

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.xfree86.render
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Jorge Valencia wrote:

> Hi,
> I'd like to know if anyone has already been able to get anti-aliased
> lines working in X.
> I know about the anti-aliased fonts support but I haven't been able to
> find anything on anti-aliased lines.
> If there is no such thing yet then my questions are:
> Is it feasible?

   One could add that sort of thing to the XRender extension.
I don't remember if that was on the roadmap or not.

> How much work is required to modify XFree86/XRender to get XDrawLine()
> produce AA lines?

   XDrawLine can't draw AA lines and never will.  There's not
enough information in the GC to allow it.

> Any other solutions to get an X app to generate AA lines?

   OpenGL supports AA lines.

			Mark.