Graphics and Drawing

This section provides application developers with an introduction to key concepts involved in drawing graphics to the screen.

Variant : Both (ScreenPlay and non-ScreenPlay). Target audience : Application developers.

• Graphics and Drawing Overview
  This topic provides an introduction to drawing graphics to the screen.
• Redraw Drawing
  This topic provides background information about redraw drawing and tips for updating old code to comply with the recommendation that all drawing is migrated to redraw drawing.
• Server-Initiated vs. Application-Initiated Redrawing
  This topic introduces the reasons that the screen display may need to be updated and the difference between redrawing that is initiated by an application and that initiated by the Window Server.
• Drawing Tutorial
  This topic provides tips and code snippets to help you get started drawing.