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Document number: N4021

Date: 2014-05-21

A Proposal to Add 2D Graphics Rendering and Display to C++, Revision 1

by Michael B. McLaughlin, Herb Sutter and Jason Zink

Excerpt:

The goal of this proposal is to define a 2D drawing API for the C++ programming language. This proposal is a revision of N3888, which was presented at the meeting of SG13 at the Issaquah meeting in February 2014. This proposal aims to provide a clean, modern C++ API that builds on the N3888 API and incorporates the feedback on it. [Note: The N3888 API was a mechanical transformation of the cairo graphics library. Cairo is a comprehensive, cross-platform, widely-used, mature 2D graphics library written in C with an object-oriented style. -- end note]