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Interop bindings for Windows.
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[IDEA] Add samples for Windows.UI.Composition #123

Open reflectronic opened 4 years ago

reflectronic commented 4 years ago

Windows.UI.Composition is a library that exposes the API for the system's composition engine. It provides support for creating, animating, and applying effects to visual elements. This issue suggests adding a couple of samples to demonstrate use of the native Composition interop APIs, which allow support for drawing to Win32 HWNDs and DirectX interop.

msmshazan commented 3 years ago

Effecient Alpha Blended windows would be a good sample too https://web.archive.org/web/20190913214618/http://www.pjblewis.com/site/posts/2016-04-27-p2-efficient-alpha-blended-windows-directcomposition.html

sylveon commented 3 years ago

This isn't the same. Windows.UI.Composition is a different API than DirectComposition, although in this case both can achieve the desired characteristic of a transparent window.

reflectronic commented 3 years ago

Perhaps this issue could be extended to adding samples for both; since DirectComposition is actually a native API, there is a lot more to demonstrate usage of TerraFX with (as opposed to just a few interop interfaces).