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The Graphics Device Interface (GDI) is a legacy component of Microsoft Windows responsible for representing graphical objects and transmitting them to output devices such as monitors and printers. It was superseded by DirectDraw API and later Direct2D API. [citation needed] Windows apps use Windows API to interact with GDI, for such tasks as ...
DirectWrite is a text layout and glyph rendering API by Microsoft. It was designed to replace GDI /GDI+ and Uniscribe for screen-oriented rendering and was first shipped with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, as well as Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 (with Platform Update installed). [1] DirectWrite is hardware-accelerated (using the ...
GDI+ in Windows XP adds resolution-independent text rendering [5] however, the UI in Windows versions up to Windows XP is not completely high-DPI aware [6] as displays with very high resolutions and high pixel densities were not available in that time frame. Windows Vista and Windows 7 scale better at higher DPIs.
Direct2D is a native code API based on C++ that can be called by managed code and uses a "lightweight COM " approach [5] just like Direct3D, with minimal amount of abstraction. However, unlike WPF and similarly to GDI/GDI+, Direct2D is an "immediate mode" rendering API with simple BeginDraw/Draw/EndDraw calls; Direct2D has no concept of a ...
Windows Photo Viewer (formerly Windows Picture and Fax Viewer) [1] is an image viewer included with the Windows NT family of operating systems. It was first included with Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 under its former name. It succeeds Imaging for Windows. It was temporarily replaced with Windows Photo Gallery in Windows Vista [2] but was ...
Windows Mobility Center. Centralizes the most relevant information related to mobile computing. mblctr.exe. Windows Vista. Security and Maintenance. Centralizes and reports on the status of anti-virus, Automatic Updates, Windows Firewall, and other security-related components of the operating system. Windows XP SP2.
Windows.pas is a Pascal/Delphi unit that exposes the features of Windows API. It is the Pascal equivalent to the C language windows.h. [14] The Windows API is for the most part intended for a program to access operating system features. For communication among different Windows applications, Microsoft has developed a series of technologies ...
I know GDI,at least from Windows 3.0, probably sooner. There was GDI in Windows 3.0, 3.1 3.11, WFW 3.11, Windows 95, 98, ME, Windows NT 3.5, NT 3.51, NT 4.0 and there is not any mention of this. This article starts with Windows XP and goes directly to GDI+, without talking effectively about GDI.