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  1. Nov 16th, 2010, 07:45 AM #1
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    Fast Text Render

    I'm developing an application a part of which is basically a WYSIWYG text editor with rich text capabilities (including full justification, text coloring, highlighting, multiple fonts, different sizes, tables)
    I'm reluctant to use RichTextBox for it because I'm aware of its relative slowness while I will need lightning speeds for this on windows XP.
    Therefore my question is -- is there any fast text rendering libs/combonents that I could use? I will consider any suggestion.
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    Re: Fast Text Render

    Make your application in WPF, the WPF renderer is far faster than GDI+ which a WinForms application uses.
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    Re: Fast Text Render

    I considered it, but won't WPF itself is a bit heavy for P4 1 Hz 1024 Mb with WinXP onboard?
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    Re: Fast Text Render

    Depends. It uses DirectX as it's renderer, so how's the graphic's system?
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    Re: Fast Text Render

    Quote Originally Posted by Jenner View Post
    Depends. It uses DirectX as it's renderer, so how's the graphic's system?
    Onboard. I don't know the exact configuration but I suspect that you wouldn't want to launch any new 3d shooter on it
    Anyway, is there anything but WPF to consider before I start coding that stuff?
    I could probably resort to c++ and gdi but I'd avoid it if I can.
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    Re: Fast Text Render

    Can anybody say something about Pango? (http://www.pango.org/) They say it can work with Win32 GDI
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