Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] Move from CDraw to AGG

["Arlen Albert" <arlen.albert@xxxxxxxxx>]

Look at the real application having AGG as its engine for drawing and
for GUI (for everything). The application shows good speed results
despite the speed of the .NET platform.

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2007/2/28, Alex Bligh <alex@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Arlen,
>
> I haven't seen any posts from  you about Antigrain here, which is
> the best place to discuss dev issues. I'm traveling at the moment
> so have not got a huge amount of time to investigate Antigrain, but
> I've looked at it before. Briefly my observations are:
> 1. It is more similar to GDraw/CDraw than Cairo is, so would probably be
>   easier to integrate, but
> 2. It doesn't have many of the advantages of Cairo (for instance Cairo's
>   printing abilities). Nor does it give the possibility of benefit on
>   h/w accelerated platforms.
>
> Putting in Cairo would, I think, be a benefit for the whole project (rather
> than just solving the CDraw "problem") Nothing against antigrain though.
> Putting either one in would make putting in the other much easier.
>
> If antigrain is as similar in interface to CDraw as I remember it, it
> should be considerably easier that Cairo. If you came up with a set of
> decent antigrain patches (and had signed the CA), and the license was
> compatible (*), I'd strongly argue they should be committed.
>
> (*) I'm worried about purely technical things here, such as AGG 2.5 is GPL
> 2 and above, whereas Xtreme is GPL 2 (and not above) plus an additional
> permission that would presumably not be relevant when Xtreme was using
> Antigrain.
>
> Alex
>
> --On 28 February 2007 02:23 +0300 Arlen Albert <arlen.albert@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> > Hello all.
> >
> > Cairo is a good choice to replace the CDraw XaraLX default graphical
> > engine.
> > But why none of you want to consider the alternative excellent
> > graphical engine written in C++ and available for any possible
> > platforms under GPL since the version 2.5 - AGG (stands for Anti-Grain
> > Geometry). Recently, I've asked Xara dev team at the forum to do the
> > comparisons between CDraw and AGG but the request was silently
> > ignored.
> >
> > I'm sure, most of you already knows the library I'm talking about. For
> > those who doesn't I give the URL: http://www.antigrain.com
> >
> > I suggest to discus the possibility to use AGG instead of Cairo for
> > the CDraw replacement.
> >
> >
>
>
>
> Alex