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Intermediate vs direct rendering

Just a small, informal diagram of how the new rendering system works, to balance out all the speculative UML sketches I made...
I have not shown the elements inside the element groups, but they are things like line elements, oval elements, and so on.
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Egon Willighagen said…
It would also be instructive if you could add where widget toolkit specifics come in... which is only after the element groups, right?
7 December 2008 at 19:10
gilleain said…
Right. The renderer gets passed a toolkit-specific Visitor, that wraps either a Graphics object (AWT) or a GC object (SWT) that does the actual pixel stuff.

Of course, this could be extended to, eg, Batik's SVGGraphics or any other suitable output (PDF, I suppose, or PostScript, or whatever).
7 December 2008 at 21:02
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