[news.eclipse.tools.gef] Re: GEF and system hardware resources...

[Jens v.P. <developer@xxxxxxxxx>]

I would doubt it. Actually, this is not an GEF/Draw2D related question, 
but an SWT question. Draw2D uses SWT to render the figures, thus it is 
up to the SWT implementation. As far as I know, SWT does not directly 
access the graphics card, so it is up to the operating system. There 
was a bug report on supporting OpenGL for Draw2D 
(http://bugs.eclipse.org/68724), and Kristian Duske (of the GEF3D team) 
has written an OpenGL based Graphics implementation. This performs 
better then the SWT based version, but it is not integrated into Draw2D 
yet, and not all features of Graphics are implemented (cf. 
http://bugs.eclipse.org/281360). If you are interested in improving the 
performance, you may have a look at that. You will have to look into 
the package "org.eclipse.draw3d.lwjgl.graphics" find in plugin 
"org.eclipse.draw3d.lwjgl" .

Cheers

Jens

On 2009-08-17 13:06:09 +0200, vijay.rajonline@xxxxxxxxx (vijay ) said:

> Hi,
>
> This question may be strange but still i need to know...
>
> Does GEF-->>Draw2d--->>SWT perform better graphically if the machine 
> has a powerfull graphics card????
>
> In terms of rendering,zooming,scrolling....