GRX: v2.4 Development Information

This is a preliminary list of features that should do into GRX v2.4

• GRX-API
  • make zoom blit available for user
  • merge BGI api into GRX
  • better wideline support
  • internationalization (keyboard/text output)
• Printing
  • PCL6 support for 1200dpi
  • use GrCreateIndependentContext for printing buffer instead of switching to memory driver
  • Merge with bitmap save, only output driver differs
• Drivers
  • Windows driver
  • OpenGL support using MESA
  • use X11 fonts instead of GRX fonts (xfonts.dir)
  • add TrueType / Type 1 font support
  • accel support (VBE/AF, Linux GGI, Windows Direct X)
  • Input drivers for mouse / keyboard
  • hardware (or X11/Windows) mouse cursor
  • check where we can use the pattern / bitmap functions
  • speed optimize the pattern / bitmap functions in drivers
  • optimize putscanline / getscanline code
  • enable 8bit DAC on 16bit systems (seems to be ok !)
  • change the memory driver: alloc separate planes
• Platforms
  • add Watcom 16bit support
  • add Microsoft C support
  • create an autoconf script for unix systems
  • can we use dynamic linking on Linux/Windows systems when loading drivers ?
• Specials
  • 64bit memcopy/memfill with 586+ using FPU/MMX/...
  • check GRX cache efficiency on 586+ system