After all these tests, I conclude that GDI+ is not convenient for text drawing
and is not useful for drawing horizontal and vertical lines.
New proposal for fellow developers to evaluate:
use GDI+ only when it allows antialiasing beyond what GDI can do.
The modified code is in another branch I called "GDI+soft"
git clone https://github.com/ManoloFLTK/fltk.git
git checkout GDI+soft
autoconf -f
./configure <----- not necessary to activate any special option here
make
CMake-based build works also. Default settings are enough.
GDI+ is initialized when the app starts and is shutdown when it stops.
GDI+ is called at each call of fl_line_style() to change accordingly the GDI+ pen.
GDI+ is called by these drawing functions:
fl_arc(int, int, …)
fl_pie()
fl_line()
fl_loop()
fl_polygon()
fl_circle()
and all functions to draw "complex shapes". All the rest (text, horizontal and vertical lines, rectangles, boxes, images) is unchanged: GDI is used.
App test/unittests evidences the benefit ot antialiased circles, ellipses and oblique lines,
and test/device that with clock hands and complex shapes.
The plastic and gleam schemes are completely GDI-based, so there's no slowdown
when they are used.
Configure.ac checks for presence of GDI+ and doesn't compile GDI+-using code in its
absence. Thus, the FLTK library remains compatible with Windows95.
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