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Lightweight C++ Library For SVG On Windows? 130

Posted by timothy on Thursday May 28, 2009 @02:53PM from the put-a-choke-on-your-tla-dectector dept.

redblue writes "I would like to display vector graphics in my Windows C++ programs with minimal system requirements. Some of the possibilities are: 1. Enhanced Metafile Format format/EMF+, 2. Flash/SWG, 3. Silverlight/XAML, 4. SVG. The non-open proprietary nature of #2 & #3 make them unattractive. Since EMF+ is not amenable to easy editing, it leaves SVG as the only format worth pursuing. The trouble is that the major vendors have a lock on the market with their proprietary formats; leaving SVG high and dry with no easy native OS support. At least not on Windows. From what I could learn on the intertubes, Cairo is the best, if not only, reasonable system that may enable compiled SVG support. Unfortunately, AFAIK, it comes with a price tag of >2MB overhead and the C++ bindings are not straightforward." Read on for the rest of redblue's question; can you improve on his home-brewed solution?

Comment Re:Sad but true (Score 1) 387

by DrSlinky on Thursday May 28, 2009 @02:46PM (#28127605) Attached to: How Comic Fans & Shops Are Stereotyped

It may be a stereotype but if you walk into most comic book/anime stores and look around at the people in them, the vast majority will match up to the stereotype.

Must depend on the store, or area perhaps.

My local comic shop happens to be a music store that started selling comics when digital downloads started crippling their sales. As it is, the wall where the new comic books are displayed are next to the used CD racks. You see a guy (or girl) go down that aisle, and you think you can predict what they're going to buy, by comparing them to these ingrained stereotypes. And yet, I'm surprised (and sometimes shocked) almost every week, when someone I "just know" is going to the used CDs actually starts picking up the latest offerings from Marvel, DC, Image, etc.

Do I see some of these stereotypes there? Sure. But not as often as I see someone you wouldn't assume is a "comic book nerd" if you saw them walking down the street.

Submission + - Circuit City to close all stores

Submitted by DrSlinky on Friday January 16, 2009 @03:36PM

DrSlinky writes: http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/16/news/companies/circuit_city/index.htm?postversion=2009011614 Circuit City to lay off all employees and close remaining stores starting saturday.

Comment Re:How does it "feel"? (Score 1) 641

by DrSlinky on Monday January 05, 2009 @06:48PM (#26336497) Attached to: 32bit Win7 Vs. Vista Vs. XP

How often do you really have to move 100 MB or 2.5 GB of files around?

Every time I buy a newer, bigger hard drive so I can store more porn without deleting the old stuff?

Comment Surprise surprise (Score 1) 142

by DrSlinky on Thursday December 18, 2008 @11:56AM (#26160581) Attached to: Personalized Spam Rising Sharply, Study Finds

Poached data, eh?

And here I thought it was simply common knowledge online that I had a small penis. Go figure.

EMA Suggests Point-Of-Sale Game Activation To Fight Piracy 244

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday December 02, 2008 @12:49AM from the new-ways-to-break-things dept.

Gamasutra reports on a set of standards (PDF) published by the Entertainment Merchants Association to promote the use of technology that would "disable" games and DVDs until they are activated when purchased. "The effort is codenamed 'Project Lazarus,' and the EMA says it's assembled a consortium of retailers, home video companies and video game publishers to see how easily such 'benefit denial technology' could be implemented, and to evaluate possible cost-benefit analyses. The initiative is similar to security tags used in clothing retail that spill ink on garments if they're forcibly removed, thereby destroying the item. In such a situation, shoplifting is discouraged by implementing a solution that only the retailer can remove at the point of sale."

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