Re: [gtk-list] Re: Fastest pixel control under GDK

[Arthur Jerijian <lightmanaj earthlink net>]

You might also want to take a look at my GdkMagick package, which allows the
use of the ImageMagick image loading/saving/manipulation routines to make
images available to GTK+. The home page is:

	http://home.earthlink.net/~lightmanaj/GdkMagick

Thanks,
--Arthur

On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> There are lots of ways to do pixel-by-pixel drawing: 
> 
>  - Manually use GdkImage (sucks, don't)
> 
>  - Draw to an RGB buffer, then use GdkRGB. Problem: you need 
>    scan conversion routines to draw lines, circles, etc. 
>    libart is a high-quality library for this, libmi which is in 
>    the otherwise-broken 'guppi2' CVS module has Xlib-style primitives.
>    An enhanced libmi is in GNU plotutils.
> 
>  - Use one of the game libraries, such as ClanLib or the one 
>    from Loki
> 
>  - Use OpenGL with GtkGLArea (probably fastest by far, especially when
>    XFree 4.0 comes out). However the game libs may start using it 
>    or may already, I'm not sure.
>  
>  - If you mostly have structured graphics with only some small 
>    raster image components, you might be able to use GnomeCanvas
>    with a custom canvas item. This is sort of a variation on the 
>    GdkRGB approach since the custom item will draw to GdkRGB.
> 
> Havoc
> 
> 
> 
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