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** Copyright (C) 2010 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
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** Contact: Nokia Corporation (qt-info@nokia.com)
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** This file is part of the documentation of the Qt Toolkit.
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** $QT_BEGIN_LICENSE:LGPL$
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** No Commercial Usage
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** Alternatively, this file may be used under the terms of the GNU Lesser
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** In addition, as a special exception, Nokia gives you certain additional
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** rights.  These rights are described in the Nokia Qt LGPL Exception
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** If you have questions regarding the use of this file, please contact
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** Nokia at qt-info@nokia.com.
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** $QT_END_LICENSE$
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****************************************************************************/
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/*!
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    \page HWAcc_rendering.html
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    \title Using hardware acceleration on embedded platforms.
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    \ingroup best-practices
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    \section1 Abstract
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    This document describes how to use hardware acceleration for fast
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    rendering on embedded platforms supported by Qt. In short, it explains
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    how the graphics pipeline works. Since there might be differences to 
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	how the APIs are being used on different embedded platforms, a table
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	links to documentation dedicated to platform specific documentation
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	for each supported hardware acceleration API.
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    \input platforms/emb-hardwareacceleration.qdocinc
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    \section1 Supported platforms
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	Since there might be differences to how the APIs are being used on
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	the different embedded platforms, this table provides you with links to
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	pages dedicated to platform specific documentation for each
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	supported hardware acceleration API. Click the API link for the
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	platform to go the correct documentation.
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    \table
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        \header
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            \o Operating System
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            \o {3,1} Hardware Acceleration Platform
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        \row
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            \o \bold {Windows CE}
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            \o \l {Qt for Windows CE and OpenGL ES}{OpenGL ES}
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            \o \l {Qt for Windows CE and OpenVG}{OpenVG} 
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            \o
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        \row
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            \o \bold {Embedded Linux}
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            \o \l {Qt for Embedded Linux and OpenGL}{OpenGL ES}
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            \o \l {Qt for Embedded Linux and OpenVG}{OpenVG} 
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            \o \l {Qt for Embedded Linux and DirectFB}{DirectFB}
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        \row
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            \o \bold {Symbian Platform}
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            \o {3,1} \e {There are currently no support for hardware
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            acceleration.}
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    \endtable
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    \section1 Examples using hardware acceleration on embedded platforms.
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    \table
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        \header
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            \o Embedded Platform
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            \o Example
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        \row
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            \o Windows CE
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        \row
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            \o Embedded Linux
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    \endtable
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\endomit
3f74d0d4af4c qt:70947f0f93d948bc89b3b43d00da758a51f1ef84
Eckhart Koeppen <eckhart.koppen@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
    97
3f74d0d4af4c qt:70947f0f93d948bc89b3b43d00da758a51f1ef84
Eckhart Koeppen <eckhart.koppen@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
    98
3f74d0d4af4c qt:70947f0f93d948bc89b3b43d00da758a51f1ef84
Eckhart Koeppen <eckhart.koppen@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
    99
3f74d0d4af4c qt:70947f0f93d948bc89b3b43d00da758a51f1ef84
Eckhart Koeppen <eckhart.koppen@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   100
*/