[wxpython-users] wxPython and Hardware acceleration..

[Robin Dunn]

Marlin Rowley wrote:
> All:
>  
> Is there any talks of having a module that uses the videocards' GPU to 
> accelerate raster operations (draw calls, bitmaps, etc..)?  This would 
> rock - and my application would speed up tremendously! :)

On Windows at least there may already be some acceleration depending on 
your video driver, since wx uses the standard GDI and GTI+ APIs.  On Mac 
it is similar, and on *nix it will be whatever GTK uses which will vary 
by version.  (The newer versions use Cairo for drawing, and Cairo is 
supposed to start using hardware acceleration one of these days.)  For 
anything beyond that you'll need to use something like OpenGL or one of 
the toolkits that can front-end OpenGL.


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