[haiku-appserver] Re: Painter status

Hi,

> > are two screenshots of some of the current features. The anti-
> > aliasing 
> > is a compile time option, with the aliased version working now 
> > quite 
> > satisfactory. Still lots of work to do, but it's more or less 
> > trivial 
> > work, like testing the original BView behaviour for the many 
> > combinations of drawing_modes and alpha blending functions. 
> > Implementing different colorspaces and so on.
> 
> Do I see correctly that the *_AA version also allows you to draw with 
> aliasing as normal BViews currently do? I would very much like a 
> BView::SetAntiAliasing(bool on) like mehod.

In both pictures, the upper half is rendered using Painter, the lower 
half is rendered using BView. Both objects are attached to a BBitmap. 
Pretty much the exact same sequence of calls is used to render the 
images. So while the aliasing/anti-aliasing is currently a compile time 
switch, I see nothing preventing me from offering a run time option.

> Anyway, this looks like great progress. Most of what's needed for the 
> whole standard interface seems to be there, so it definitely makes 
> sense to start integrating it to me.
> Any news on that very subject?

For me to help out on the "integrating bit" of the task, I would have 
to get much more familiar with the Haiku app_server. Currently, I don't 
even know how to compile test code to actually see something running in 
the new app_server. I have hoped, that while I was working on 
implementing all the remaining details of Painter, that others started 
using it, and I could see what they were doing and thereby get to know 
the Haiku app_server design.

Best regards,
-Stephan

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