Subpixel Rendering, ala sorta cleartype

[Steven Edwards]

Hi rosdevs!
This is an issue I've been working on for a while on the Wine side of
things and now they have initial support for it. If any of you
Win32k/GDI hackers are interested in making ReactOS look a bit better
on LCDs please enable support in freetype and review the following
Wine patch to get an idea of the requirements.

Thanks

http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/?a=commitdiff;h=028617b90ba586bdb30723...
-- 
Steven Edwards

"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and
that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo

[François Revol]

Hi,
> This is an issue I've been working on for a while on the Wine side of
> things and now they have initial support for it. If any of you
> Win32k/GDI hackers are interested in making ReactOS look a bit better
> on LCDs please enable support in freetype and review the following
> Wine patch to get an idea of the requirements.

You might also be interested in how we did it on Haiku:
http://www.haiku-os.org/blog/andrej_spielmann/2008-07-23/sub_pixel_antialias...

Cheers,
François.

[Steven Edwards]

Hi Francois,

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 3:00 PM, François Revol [e-mail] wrote:
> You might also be interested in how we did it on Haiku:
> http://www.haiku-os.org/blog/andrej_spielmann/2008-07-23/sub_pixel_antialias...

Thanks for the link! Also if any of the ros-dev's are watching this
thread, please keep an eye on

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10342

There are still a few glitches with the SubPixel rendering support
they are working out in Winehq. Once they have all the issues nailed,
if no one else works on it, perhaps I'll pester the Win32k devs and
give it a shot myself.

Thanks
-- 
Steven Edwards

"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and
that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo

[James Tabor]

Hi,
I'm monitoring, once everything clears out, I'll integrate it in at
the appropriate driver level. It will require retooling.
Thanks,
James

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 8:02 AM, Steven Edwards [e-mail] wrote:
> There are still a few glitches with the SubPixel rendering support
> they are working out in Winehq. Once they have all the issues nailed,
> if no one else works on it, perhaps I'll pester the Win32k devs and
> give it a shot myself.
> Thanks
>
> Steven Edwards

[Steven Edwards]

Hi James,

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 6:04 PM, James Tabor [e-mail] wrote:
> I'm monitoring, once everything clears out, I'll integrate it in at
> the appropriate driver level. It will require retooling.

I looked at it a bit and it looks like we need to update our freetype.
Do you want me to go ahead and test this in my tree and send you a
patch/diff so that once things are stable on the Wine side you can
start working on it?
-- 
Steven Edwards

"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and
that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo

[James Tabor]

Hi,
Okay, just keep the wine'isms to a minimum if you can.... 8^)
Thanks,
James

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 10:01 PM, Steven Edwards [e-mail] wrote:
> Hi James,
>
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 6:04 PM, James Tabor [e-mail] wrote:
> > I'm monitoring, once everything clears out, I'll integrate it in at
> > the appropriate driver level. It will require retooling.
>
> I looked at it a bit and it looks like we need to update our freetype.
> Do you want me to go ahead and test this in my tree and send you a
> patch/diff so that once things are stable on the Wine side you can
> start working on it?
>
> --
> Steven Edwards