#1 Add support for PocketHAL

[Hans-Martin Will]

Investigate possible blitting options:

There are different ways of transfering the final bit
image to screen:
- bitblt
- GAPI
- PocketHAL

Need to determine the most performant way of doing
this.

[Carlo Bonamico]

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I would suggest leaving if possible two or more options.
While bitblt is slower, there are cases where it is useful
to have the scene rendered in a child window, which is
really tricky to do in GAPI (I do not know in PocketHAL)

[Hans-Martin Will]

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Good point. Several people asked explicitly for PocketHAL
support, so that might be an option in addition to regular
GDI blits.

There is a proposal in the wokring group to extend the
egl... API in an easy way for explicit fullscreen support,
and that might trigger which approach is used.

[Hans-Martin Will]

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Add support for PocketHAL in addition to existing GDI surfaces.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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As far as I know, PocketHAL chooses the fastest blit method
internally (including BitBlt, GAPI and GETRAWFRAMEBUFFER).

I would also like to see PocketHAL support, but how would
you handle the licensing? Unregistered PocketHAL has a small
splash logo in the corner of the screen. Registering costs
whatever you would like to donate, but since PocketHAL comes
as a .lib and Vincent comes as a DLL, you would have to use
the unregistered version, or perhaps organise something with
the creator of PocketHAL.

Peter Mackay
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