Dear Ladies & Gentlemen,

It is my greatest pleasure after a years of development to announce the launch of a brand new general-purpose vector & raster graphics imaging library called CrossGL.

Main highlights:

* Raster imaging (file formats, bitmap filters, depth conversions)
* Full featured set of vector graphics API
* Interractions support (advanced hit testing capabilities)
* Layering composition
* I18N, support for Unicode
* Delphi & Lazarus native components
* Crossplatform foundations
* Vector Graphics Editor with Rotating Canvas
* Surface Computing gadgets with 360º UI

For more informations, please visit http://www.CrossGL.com

Milan

Milan Marusinec wrote

It is my greatest pleasure after a years of development to announce the launch of a brand new general-purpose vector & raster graphics imaging library called CrossGL.

Nice work Milan. Seeing that it's a cross platform graphics library, it would be very nice if there was cross platform demos. Currently it only has 3 Windows demos available for download. Doesn't say much for Linux support. :-( Either way, the Windows demos did run under WINE, but no fonts appeared.

Quick question? How does CrossGL compare to AGG or AGG-PAS? It looks like they have pretty much the same feature set, but the latter two being free. What does CrossGL have that will convince me to spend money on it?

PS:
I really like the swirling button effect and the clicking effect. :-) 10/10 for that eye-candy!

Regards,
- Graeme -

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Graeme Geldenhuys wrote

Quick question? How does CrossGL compare to AGG or AGG-PAS? It looks

Ah, no wonder the feature set looked familiar - you worked on AggPas first. :-) AggPas is pretty awesome. I hope to one day create a fpGUI backend based on AggPas.

Regards,
- Graeme -

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http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/

Yes I know. I'm going the Chrome way - release as early as possible and iterate ... Linux & Mac comming ...

Quick question? How does CrossGL compare to AGG or AGG-PAS? It looks like they have pretty much the same feature set, but the latter two being free. What does CrossGL have that will convince me to spend money on it?

Saving a few years of development on top of AGG should be convincing. CrossGL can be used out of box. I created CrossGL Draw in just two months with this API (gadget apps in a half day) - and in Delphi 4 !!!.

PS: I really like the swirling button effect and the clicking effect. :-) 10/10 for that eye-candy!

Happy to hear that !

Milan

first. :-)

AggPas is pretty awesome. I hope to one day create a fpGUI backend based on AggPas.

As an author of AggPas I would LOVE to see that Graeme. You have my full support for this. Just do it.
(Now you ca see, AggPas is usable in real sw)

Milan