[Mono-winforms-list] System.Drawing update.

[Miguel de Icaza]

Hello,

> >     Alexandre has now a version of System.Drawing that uses GDIPLUS
> > and
> > has also implemented a C-based version of GDIPLUS that we can use.  I
> > have tested this on my machine, and it works fine.
> > 
> >     It needs a few bug fixes to get to the level we have now with
> > System.Drawing, but the code is *significantly* easier.
> > 
> >     So now we follow the original suggestion from Jordi Mas: to just
> > use GDIPLUS and implement the GDIPLUS library for Linux.  Alexandre
> > said he would check in the code as soon as we fix a few bugs.
> 
> Is this GDIPLUS implemenation one that can be merged back to Winehq for
> use in Wine. Also how dependant is it on X? Could it be used on
> ReactOS?

It could probably be used for Wine.

It uses Cairo, so you would have to port that to any other new OS.

Miguel