Re: Don't cvs update now, if ...

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Sun, 06 Oct 2002, Hans Breuer wrote:
> ... you don't plan to help with the transition to GObject 
> based DiaRenderer(s).
>
> That said, here is what currently already works (with
> probably minor build issues on *nix, cause all this work
> was done on win32) :
>
> There is a new DiaRenderer class and a DiaInteractiveRenderer
> interface defined in libdia. The DiaRenderer implementation
> lives in libdia, the additional DiaInteractiveRenderer interface
> is implemented in app/*
>
> - RendererGdk is ported to be DiaGdkRenderer
> - RendererPixmap has vanished. The render to pixmap facility
>   is implemented on top of DiaGdkRenderer (parametrization)
> - DiaRenderer has default implementations for higher level
>   renderer function like draw_bezier (approximation with
>   draw_line, moved from RendererGdk, *_rounded_*, etc.)

[...]

So is the 'function overloading' done with the GLib stuff or with the same
mechanism as before?  Looking at the GLib function overloading, it seems
rather heavy-weight, with before and after functions.

-Lars

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