Comparing Direct2D and GDI Hardware Acceleration Direct2D and GDI are both immediate mode 2D rendering APIs and both offer some degree of hardware acceleration. This topic explores the differences ...

GDI, or Graphics Device Interface, is a core component of Windows operating systems that allows applications to use graphics and formatted text on both the video display and the printer. By leveraging ...

Following up on the previous article, this time we will cover GDI as a topic related to SVF. In SVF, GDI technology is utilized for form rendering on Windows and for print processing via drivers. GDI ...

The key to solving this problem lies in directly managing the HDC (Device Context) of the TBitmap used as the rendering destination and using the Windows API AlphaBlend function to render the image.

It was a principal element of the Day 2 keynote at Microsoft's PDC 2009 conference last week in Los Angeles: an early demonstration of code being worked into Internet Explorer 9 that replaces the ...