January 2011 – Terra Informatica Software

C++0x: Running code in GUI thread from worker threads.

Posted on January 29, 2011 by c-smile

One of topics in design of multi-threading GUI applications is to choose method of calling GUI code from so called worker threads – threads that do some work in background. At some point they need to report results to the GUI. But GUI is a shareable resource so some form of synchronization is required. One…

DirectWrite font rendering.

Posted on January 17, 2011 by c-smile

While experimenting with Direct2D/Write back-ends for htmlayout/sciter got these results: Rendering of <textarea> in default DirectWrite mode: The same but in GDI: Probably subjective but classic GDI rendering is better for typical UI font. DirectWrite variant is more blurry (especially note the selection). So I forced to add one more proprietary CSS property: font-rendering-mode: classic…