DirectFB 1.0.0 RC2 review

DirectFB is a thin library that provides developers with hardware graphics acceleration, input device handling and abstraction, integ

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 2093K Developer: Denis Oliver Kropp, Andreas Hundt, Sven Neumann

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DirectFB is a thin library that provides developers with hardware graphics acceleration, input device handling and abstraction, integrated windowing system with support for translucent windows and multiple display layers on top of the Linux Framebuffer Device.

DirectFB project is a complete hardware abstraction layer with software fallbacks for every graphics operation that is not supported by the underlying hardware. DirectFB adds graphical power to embedded systems and sets a new standard for graphics under Linux.

Here are some key features of "DirectFB":
Rectangle filling/drawing
Triangle filling/drawing
Line drawing
Flat shaded triangles
Simple blitting
Stretched blitting
Textured triangles (perspective correct)
Blending with an alphachannel (per pixel alpha)
Blending with an alpha factor (alpha modulation)
Nine source and destination blend functions
Porter/Duff rules are supported
Premultiplied alpha supported
Colorized blitting (color modulation)
Source color keying
Destination color keying