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<a name="add-your-graphics-driver-to-qt-for-embedded-linux"></a><p>In <a href="qt-embedded-linux.html">Qt for Embedded Linux</a>, painting is a pure software implementation normally performed in two steps. First, each window is rendered onto a QWSWindowSurface using <a href="qpaintengine.html">QPaintEngine</a>. Second, the server composes the surface images and copies the composition to the screen (see <a href="qt-embedded-architecture.html">Qt for Embedded Linux Architecture</a> for details). <a href="qt-embedded-linux.html">Qt for Embedded Linux</a> uses <a href="qrasterpaintengine.html">QRasterPaintEngine</a> (a raster-based implementation of <a href="qpaintengine.html">QPaintEngine</a>) to implement painting operations, and uses <a href="qscreen.html">QScreen</a> to implement window composition.</p>
<p>It is possible to add an accelerated graphics driver to take advantage of available hardware resources. This is described in detail in the <a href="qws-svgalib.html">Accelerated Graphics Driver Example</a> which uses the following approach:</p>
<p><b>Warning:</b> This feature is under development and is subject to change.</p>
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<h2>Step 1: Create a Custom Screen</h2>
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<p>You might want to accelerate the final copying to the screen by reimplementing the <a href="qscreen.html#blit">blit()</a> and <a href="qscreen.html#solidFill">solidFill()</a> functions.</p>
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<p>Implement the painting operations by subclassing the <a href="qrasterpaintengine.html">QRasterPaintEngine</a> class.</p>
<p>To accelerate a graphics primitive, simply reimplement the corresponding function in your custom paint engine. If there is functionality you do not want to reimplement (such as certain pens, brushes, modes, etc.), you can just call the corresponding base class implementation.</p>
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<p>To activate your paint engine you must create a subclass of the <a href="qcustomrasterpaintdevice.html">QCustomRasterPaintDevice</a> class and reimplement its <a href="qpaintdevice.html#paintEngine">paintEngine()</a> function. Let this function return a pointer to your paint engine. In addition, the <a href="qcustomrasterpaintdevice.html#memory">QCustomRasterPaintDevice::memory</a>() function must be reimplemented to return a pointer to the buffer where the painting should be done.</p>
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<tr valign="top" class="odd"><td >By default the <a href="qrasterpaintengine.html">QRasterPaintEngine</a> draws into a memory buffer (this can be local memory, shared memory or graphics memory mapped into application memory). In some cases you might want to avoid using a memory buffer directly, e.g if you want to use an accelerated graphic controller to handle all the buffer manipulation. This can be implemented by reimplementing the <a href="qcustomrasterpaintdevice.html#memory">QCustomRasterPaintDevice::memory</a>() function to return 0 (meaning no buffer available). Then, whenever a color or image buffer normally would be written into paint engine buffer, the paint engine will call the <a href="qrasterpaintengine.html#drawColorSpans">QRasterPaintEngine::drawColorSpans</a>() and <a href="qrasterpaintengine.html#drawBufferSpan">QRasterPaintEngine::drawBufferSpan</a>() functions instead.<p>Note that the default implementations of these functions only calls <a href="qtglobal.html#qFatal">qFatal</a>() with an error message; reimplement the functions and let them do the appropriate communication with the accelerated graphics controller.</p>
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<p>Derive from the QWSWindowSurface class and reimplement its paintDevice() function. Make this function return a pointer to your custom raster paint device.</p>
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<p>Finally, reimplement <a href="qscreen.html">QScreen</a>'s <a href="qscreen.html#createSurface">createSurface()</a> function and make this function able to create an instance of your QWSWindowSurface subclass.</p>
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