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Short: application layer for pixel graphics
Author: Timm S. Müller
Uploader: Timm S. Müller (Timm.Mueller@darmstadt.netsurf.de)
Type: dev/misc
Version: 16.0
Requires: Kickstart 3.0 (v39), MC68020, render.library v30
overview
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- guigfx.library is an application layer for pixel graphics.
- guigfx.library breaks the chains of all those nasty
planar, chunky, 8/16/24bit, OS3.0, OS3.1, OCS, ECS, AGA,
CybergraphX and Picasso96 considerations.
- with guigfx.library you no longer have to take care about your
application running on a OCS machine or on a high-end
graphics-card system.
- guigfx.library lets you freely choose truecolor graphics for
your applications.
- with guigfx.library your graphics will always look as fine as
possible, on any screen, no matter if driven on 24 bit
1024x768 CybergraphX/Picasso96, on HAM8, or 1 bit productivity
interlaced.
- guigfx.library does quick color-reduction, rendering,
remapping and dithering for you. only you don't know when,
on which machine, under what circumstances.
- guigfx.library treats scaling as a standard operation.
it is available at any time, without extra consideration,
without extra memory consumption, even without a true loss
of performance.
- guigfx.library handles screen pen allocation in an extremely
effective way.
- guigfx.library hides bugs, incompatibilities and insufficiencies
of graphics.library, cybergraphics.library and Picasso96 from
you. it is an attempt to render incompatibilities between
different versions of CybergraphX and Picasso96 obsolete.
- guigfx.library features picture.datatype import. standard and
v43 (including Picasso96) picture datatypes are automatically
recognized and used as available.
- guigfx.library does not call SetFunction() and is hereby
guaranteed to never do so in future versions.
- guigfx.library puts all that stuff into a black-box,
freeing your mind for the creative part.
features
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- full truecolor, OCS, ECS, AGA, HAM support
- screen-pen management
- color-reduction
- dithering
- picture.class datatype import
- scaling
- image processing methods
(crop, scale, render, tint,
alpha-channel, texture-mapping, ...)
- fully documented
- supplied with C includes for SAS/C, StormC and MaxonC
- freeware
requirements
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- render.library v30 (dev/misc/renderlib.lha)
- MC68020
- OS3.0 (v39)
optional:
higher OS, higher CPU, FPU,
CyberGraphX or Picasso 96
recent changes
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v16
- added GGFX_RastLock for passing an optional SignalSemaphore
that may be used for locking a drawhandle's rastport while
rendering.
- default dithermode is now DITHERMODE_EDD.
- v39 exec pooled memory environment reactivated (it was
disabled since v10).
- added StormC includes.
- removed all assembler and E includes. I'm too lazy to
keep the assembler files up-to-date manually, and the
iconvert tool of E throws enforcer-hits on my system.
(if you're programming the respective languages, you
should have better ways to transform the includes than
I have)
v15.2
- static-palette drawhandles allocate much better pens now
(a YUV colorspace is used instead of RGB), and allocation
is quicker.