2017/10/24

11:11

I am going to need to split PixelArrayGraphics for cases that are other than RGB. But one thing I need to figure out is font rendering. I need to handle stuff like accents and all those things, potentially italics and bold too. I suppose fonts should have their glyphs cached using Images at which point they can be stored. I think that would be the best way to handle things. The glyphs at least can be stored in the FontHandle so that the caching system is the same for all fonts. I am not entirely sure how things will work when it comes to memory and such.

12:29

I think I need to overhaul how images are handled and how the graphics system is done. I will need speed for the most part. Basically I can do something similar to the fonts, but not with a cached mapping. Well actually really just an image manager with a reference queue so to speak. Basically I want to have native images and have the image data purely be in the native data, but where the image can be obtained from the graphics drawing system. I will need this because I do really want to have accelerated image drawing. Otherwise images that are drawn will for the most part just end up being copied and such.

12:35

If there are say OpenGL graphics back ends for displays for example, having the unaccelerated wrappers will just make things so slow when they could be faster. But, there will be a native image system that can handle such cases.

14:32

Ok so I have an idea how to get this done, basically I have native images which are resource managed by weak references. There also would be a class which can manage any native resource, this would be needed for widgets and such. When the object holding the native resource is garbage collected then the native thing will be called so that it may be freed. Since it may be in C code, it will need deallocations potentially. When it comes to native images, there will be initialization of native images, their needed information such as size, their type, and any needed arrays. Then there will be Graphics. I will do an overhaul of the graphics. Basically, what will happen is that there will be a means of doing graphic primitives using potential hardware acceleration on undefined surfaces. I will have a rule where surfaces are required memory access, since it simplifies things I would say. Plus all modern systems handle graphics that way. Images could be directly associated with the framebuffer. Then when it comes to fullscreen graphics in a canvas, it can just draw on the image that is the framebuffer itself for the most part. That would be a direct route to images.

14:51

Will need to figure out scalable images also.

16:34

Figures that when I get to something exciting, I have to go to a menial labor job. Regardless the thing to work on I suppose would be getting canvases working again with a basic event system so that I can run what I have for Squirrel Quarrel. I think to be honest I will get rid of that and make something far simpler. Will definitely need to refactor the Image class and the associated Graphics classes so that way things are a bit better, easier, and faster hopefully. I could also experiment with rendering text too, which will be rather complicated.