"Allan Odgaard" <ML@Top-House.DK> wrote in message news:C20B6DFC-8290-11D8-9A67-00039351BBEE@Top-House.DK...
[...] and that led me to the conclusion that either there is no real use for this stuff outside GUI kits, windowing systems, and 2D games or efficient region "logic" is often skipped for ad hoc workarounds like using bounding boxes or refreshing more than necessary -- in which case there really ought to be a library.
Perhaps an OSS library similar to DirectX? I know there's OpenGL, but that seemed more focused on 3D last time I looked at it. I think there's still enough 2D applications that such a library would be useful (especially as a low-level implementation library for the GUI libraries being floated around here). Dave --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.581 / Virus Database: 368 - Release Date: 2/9/2004