Re: [Opentzt-developers] Build Q's

[James W. <jam...@gm...>]

Hey All, Plexus,

> Got the same problem. That's why I concentrated on doing 
> "Janitor"-Work and GUI stuff at first.
> But after the 1.6 release I have mostly DX9, 888, 64bit stuff on the 
> ToDo list.
> (I wouldn't go above DX9 to still support XP)
Like i said before i'm not big on the GUI layout, would be open to 
alternate suggestions?
I like some of the changes, not all of them though.
i could easily do up an image for others to critique/comment?

Personally i think a clean break between the existing version, and a 
newer 64-bit version would be a good idea.
Although i would think that any new 64bit, 888, version should be based 
on newer tech like windows7.
I don't know many/any? people running 64-bit winXP systems? Given the 
amount of time such a project will take ie. likely a year or so
I think that targeting windows7_64 is the best bet.   Also we could get 
rid of GDI dependency easily then.

>
> Except for one big issue: The Clone Window Resizing (could be a movie 
> title :)
> Thats on top if the list. The quality and resolution of video 
> projectors has improved much, so the poor resizing is really obvious 
> now and pretty annoying.
>
> Unfortunately, I have no idea what's the best way to do that. If 
> anyone has a good idea, please tell me.
>
Have you seen my post on the forums on sourceforge?
I found a  codeproject webpage that outlines a method of doing 
anti-aliased upscaling via  GDI+/GDI
I'm not sure how well it would perform but i think that this method 
would be a very easy way to increase the upscale quality

http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/77955/GDIplus-Replacement-for-StretchBlt-With-Anti-Alias.aspx


I'm still working on moving some of the asm/mmx code to SSE2, but it's 
slow going at the moment.

Cheers,
James / vj PiedPiper