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2. DirectWrite - Wikipedia

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   DirectWrite is a text layout and glyph rendering API by Microsoft.It was designed to replace GDI/GDI+ and Uniscribe for screen-oriented rendering and was first shipped with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, as well as Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 (with Platform Update installed). [1]

3. DirectDraw - Wikipedia

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   DirectDraw (ddraw.dll) is an API that used to be a part of Microsoft's DirectX API.DirectDraw is used to accelerate rendering of 2D graphics in applications. DirectDraw also allows applications to run fullscreen or embedded in a window such as most other MS Windows applications.

4. Graphics Device Interface - Wikipedia

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   Each window consumes GDI objects. As the complexity of the window increases, with additional features such as buttons and images, its GDI object usage also increases. When too many objects are in use, Windows is unable to draw any more GDI objects, leading to misbehaving software and frozen and unresponsive program operation. [13]

5. List of alternative shells for Windows - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of software that provides an alternative graphical user interface for Microsoft Windows operating systems. The technical term for this interface is a shell. Windows' standard user interface is the Windows shell; Windows 3.0 and Windows 3.1x have a different shell, called Program Manager. The programs in this list do not restyle ...

6. Desktop Window Manager - Wikipedia

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   Under Windows 7 and with WDDM 1.1 drivers, DWM only writes the program's buffer to the video RAM, even if it is a graphics device interface (GDI) program. This is because Windows 7 supports (limited) hardware acceleration for GDI [2] and in doing so does not need to keep a copy of the buffer in system RAM so that the CPU can write to it.

7. Simple DirectMedia Layer - Wikipedia

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   GDI back-end for Microsoft Windows. DirectX back-end; older SDL 1.2 uses DirectX 7 by default, while 2.0 defaults to DirectX 9 and can access up to DirectX 12. Quartz back-end for macOS (dropped in 2.0). Metal back-end for macOS / iOS / tvOS since 2.0.8; older versions use OpenGL by default. [51] [52] Xlib back-end for X11-based windowing ...