Re: [Gnash-dev] [PATCH] Initial implementation of a cairo renderer

[Bastiaan Jacques]

On Tuesday 02 May 2006 09:45, Timothy Lee wrote:
> I've implementation a cairo renderer that is semi-working.

Great! I'm very pleased with this (and I'm sure Rob will be as well).

>     * ogl is hardcoded as the renderer in Makefile and gnash.cpp.  I
>       guess work in configure script is needed.

I'm doing that now. I hope to commit the brand new cairo handler today.

>     * The use of TRIANGLE_STRIP in draw_mesh_strip() is non-optimal for
>       cairo.  Passing the polygon directly is more efficient.  Maybe
>       extend render_handler class with draw_polygon(), and call
>       prefer_polygon() to determine whether draw_polygon() should be used?

Sounds good to me. I wonder if the same could be said for the other handlers, 
in which case we could just switch to using polygons for all of them. (I have 
no idea if this is the case, though.)

Thanks very much for your efforts!

-- 
Bastiaan