MetaWINDOW Provides an Arsenal
of Powerful Graphic Drawing Capabilities
The Basics
Lines, ovals, arcs, rects, polygons - fill & frame
Seed and boundary flood fills
Bitmap text fonts
Scalable vector fonts
Dynamic text facing (bold, italic, underline, ...)
Device, local and virtual coordinate mapping
Multi-width wide lines
Virtual bitmaps in memory, EMS, XMS or disk
Screen and virtual bitmap bitblit transfers
Quick local memory image save & restore
Convert image color formats
Keyboard & mouse event processing
Automatic mouse/cursor tracking
User-defined cursors
Marker plotting functions
HP Laserjet & dot matrix printer hardcopy
Advanced Capabilities
Programmable line dash lengths
16 standard rasterOps
16 transparent rasterOps
Object-oriented programming interface
Multiple windows / virtual screens
Zoom and scale images to any size
Round-pen precision wide lines
Full-color fill patterns
You Won't Find These Features
In Your Average Graphics Toolkit!
Rounded-corner rectangles - fill & frame
Thin line end-caps (not-first/not-last)
Hit detection
Pattern alignment
Polygon winding and odd/even fill rules
Dashed line on/off and double styles
Region computation & drawing functions
Clipping to irregular shaped regions
High speed convex polygon fills
Colored cursors up to 32x32 in size
International (multi-coded) character fonts
PostScript style round & square pen shapes
PostScript style line caps
and more . . .
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