Re:Microsoft previews its Fluid framework
by my123 on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @03:08AM
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AFAIK, GDI acceleration came back in Windows 7 (with WDDM 1.1 and later GPU drivers).
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Re:Microsoft previews its Fluid framework
by DaiPlusPlus on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @04:47AM
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Only for a small subset of operations, like Blitting - everything else (like 2D accelerated line and shape drawing) was made slower.
I understand the business and technical reasons for doing this - but Microsoft never replaced GDI with an _approachable_ replacement. Direct2D is nice, but it's very difficult to use from the .NET world, whereas GDI is a first-class library feature in `System.Drawing`.