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The lines have blurred long time ago. RDP also has “draw lines” calls (which have not really been used in ages), and double buffered X client programs (as done
by beagle3 8y ago
The lines have blurred long time ago. RDP also has “draw lines” calls (which have not really been used in ages), and double buffered X client programs (as done in the majority of toolkits for the past 10 years or so) basically transfer only bitmaps these days.
History is different, but practically they have been converging to a similar result.
- tinus_hn 8y agoI don’t think Windows programs really used the ‘lines and brushes’ era apis anymore either.
- badsectoracula 8y agoGDI is still heavily used by most programs that use the Win32 API and all native controls are implemented using it.
- beagle3 8y agoYes, but the RDP backend doesn't send them to the client that way anymore (and hasn't for years) - instead, it renders them locally and sends the rendered bitmap.