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<concept id="GUID-D0C84E1D-A625-4F79-8515-399B8153727B" xml:lang="en"><title>What's New in Graphics in Symbian^3</title><shortdesc>This section describes the changes introduced in the Graphics
package in Symbian^3.</shortdesc><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>
<section id="GUID-B341632C-47E7-4A0E-B3E5-2B69FD0AB09D"><title>ScreenPlay</title><p>ScreenPlay is a new graphics architecture which enables device
creators to take advantage of improved software performance, hardware
acceleration and third party graphics engines. For more information,
see:</p><ul>
<li><xref href="GUID-D93978BE-11A3-5CE3-B110-1DEAA5AD566C.dita">The ScreenPlay
Graphics Architecture</xref></li>
<li><xref href="GUID-F64E6551-670E-5E12-8103-DE504D3EC94F.dita">The NonScreenPlay
Graphics Architecture</xref></li>
<li><xref href="GUID-6D8A1FC7-095B-587E-8274-23C132978C53.dita">Enabling the Graphics
Architecture Variants</xref></li>
<li><xref href="GUID-859CAA08-59C9-5FD3-98DE-6BDD0D6ED50B.dita">Graphics
Composition</xref></li>
<li><xref href="GUID-EF62BF88-3687-505D-8BD7-EEDF36246E56.dita">Graphics
Hardware Acceleration</xref></li>
<li><xref href="GUID-0EBE5733-A267-5F4A-85AD-87C3ECF80731.dita">Dynamic
Resolution Switching</xref></li>

<li><xref href="GUID-19C3DA8C-0128-5172-B859-4FD6F6197451.dita">Common Graphics Headers
Component Overview</xref></li>
<li><xref href="GUID-9C269F45-F160-5A4B-ABF8-896D2A538E3B.dita">Advanced
Pointer Overview</xref></li>
<li><xref href="GUID-495EA1C8-E95F-54AE-B4D1-0F463003C2D7.dita">External
Surfaces Overview</xref></li>
<li><xref href="GUID-2E8929E6-9555-51D2-B41D-6F1D05A4DB87.dita">Render Stages Overview</xref></li>
<li><xref href="GUID-8659E1EC-7744-5F93-AC56-C3000A2232CB.dita">MiniGUI Environment</xref></li>
</ul>       </section>
<section id="GUID-934FEF09-12B2-418D-B6B4-1CCD41FFD27A"><title>Khronos
APIs</title><p>For information about the supported Khronos APIs, see:</p><ul>
<li><xref href="GUID-50254C2F-57B6-58C4-911F-294EF2B79C04.dita">Khronos
API Support</xref></li>
<li><xref href="GUID-1B1C6D35-FFDF-55B3-BCE2-DD0295858E49.dita">OpenVG
Collection</xref></li>
<li><xref href="GUID-AB93B01C-B6C2-5B24-ADEF-95706584D625.dita">OpenGLES
Collection</xref></li>
<li><xref href="GUID-8C6D4350-A38D-57A1-8C8D-C777EA7E8A3E.dita">EGL Collection</xref></li>
<li><xref href="GUID-8FE41C9A-8171-58A2-A808-17B81E79B11F.dita">OpenWF Composition</xref></li>
</ul></section>
<section id="GUID-92E3FEE6-30D9-4C1B-8084-3CE3FA1DFE9B"><title>Other new features</title><ul>
<li><xref href="GUID-D76C7759-739D-5C98-B718-7297687FE630.dita">Extended
Bitmaps</xref></li>
<li><xref href="GUID-8DF46A11-874A-52E5-9298-C083EA633BA0.dita">Implementing
Dynamic DSA Allocation</xref></li>
<li><xref href="GUID-3E7A9A92-F217-4BD1-82CE-227931CFB8ED.dita">Multiple
Pointer Support in the Emulator</xref></li>
</ul></section>
<section id="GUID-B7EEA185-4445-4875-A9B6-18EF2264FD9C"><title>Interface
breaks and deprecated functionality</title><p>On ScreenPlay, support
for direct screen access (DSA) is maintained for backward compatibility
reasons, although Symbian recommends the use of external surfaces
in preference to DSA. However, whereas on some earlier
devices, applications might work without fully conforming to the rules
of DSA, these rules are now necessarily enforced. See <xref href="GUID-3F0FCBB5-98D2-4355-96E3-2DA938DE1C16.dita">DSA Migration Guide</xref> for information about the guidelines applications must follow in
order to be able to run correctly on a ScreenPlay device.</p><p>The following functionality is deprecated in Symbian^3:</p><ul>
<li><p>DirectGDI is deprecated.
See <xref href="GUID-A2E07A3C-B3A8-50B9-BD60-F1F01795FA24.dita">DirectGDI
Component</xref> for more information.</p></li>
<li><p>The Graphics Resource components
are deprecated and will be removed in Symbian^4. See <xref href="GUID-26E51AB0-C0FC-55EA-B747-C834E2D4FD27.dita">Graphics Resource
Services Collection</xref> for more information.</p></li>
<li><p>Creating transparent windows using a mask and <xref href="GUID-683603DD-F3D3-3193-BEB3-8236C7DE7F79.dita"><apiname>RWindow</apiname></xref> is deprecated. See <xref href="GUID-02BD38E7-A579-5BD5-9444-4E7C14C7809A.dita">Transparent Windows</xref> for more information.</p></li>
<li><p>Backed-up windows are deprecated. See <xref href="GUID-08A6A034-5609-58B0-8EA7-943B2A937B40.dita">Displayable Windows</xref> for more information. </p></li>
</ul></section>
<section id="GUID-9B1C753E-E502-4578-A5A7-0C8CD2739C5C"><title>Guide
documentation changes</title><p>The following documentation has been added to the Graphics Reference:</p><ul>
<li><xref href="GUID-F2AF891D-A514-5743-B6F0-9271CE2A1775.dita">Graphics
Components and Their CBR Package Names</xref></li>
<li><xref href="GUID-610C1484-112E-5442-95DC-89CF890A8310.dita">Pixel Formats</xref></li>
</ul><p>The following documentation has been added to the Windowing
collection:</p><ul>
<li><xref href="GUID-2C443E6F-BC3D-5252-8098-9F850AA88A35.dita">Window
Server Component Overview</xref></li>
<li><xref href="GUID-B1CB6374-2C2B-5D6C-9A7C-6E49D8F235B8.dita">Display
Control and Mapping in the Window Server Client</xref></li>
<li><xref href="GUID-02BD38E7-A579-5BD5-9444-4E7C14C7809A.dita">Transparent
Windows</xref></li>
<li><xref href="GUID-8DB1C618-597C-560C-95A2-C0AB2CEBB027.dita">Redraw
Drawing</xref></li>
<li><xref href="GUID-A12A66ED-2C8F-5CE6-8F3E-332B045A35B4.dita">Advanced
Pointers</xref></li>
<li><xref href="GUID-1C025957-258C-54C0-94A5-AD60C14E6D76.dita">External
Surfaces</xref></li>
<li><xref href="GUID-3A2785D4-6185-50C3-8D7E-5D94CD2B7C98.dita">Render-Stages</xref></li>
<li><xref href="GUID-EB7F7772-1C0D-54C7-9856-AD552DF1F102.dita">Window Server Plug-in
Framework Overview</xref></li>
<li><xref href="GUID-8659E1EC-7744-5F93-AC56-C3000A2232CB.dita">MiniGUI Environment</xref></li>
<li><xref href="GUID-E29CAFA8-523D-57D2-AC1B-D6D01741550B.dita">Window
Server Internals Concepts</xref></li>
<li><xref href="GUID-85E1E45B-DD05-5B7D-84E7-9911E0A3E3CC.dita">The wsini.ini
File</xref></li>
<li><xref href="GUID-E7F6DD98-9080-50E9-B071-56247EBBF570.dita">Window Server Plug-ins
Component</xref></li>
</ul><p>The following documentation
has been added to the Font and Bitmap Server collection:</p><ul>
<li><p><xref href="GUID-E6E6A439-B3CC-5FEA-9148-2DB5F37003F2.dita">Creating
an Extended Bitmap Rasterizer</xref></p></li>
</ul><p>The following documentation has been added to the OpenGLES
collection:</p><ul>
<li><p><xref href="GUID-AB93B01C-B6C2-5B24-ADEF-95706584D625.dita">OpenGLES
Collection</xref></p></li>
</ul><p>The following documentation has been added to the OpenVG collection:</p><ul>
<li><p><xref href="GUID-1B1C6D35-FFDF-55B3-BCE2-DD0295858E49.dita">OpenVG
Collection</xref></p></li>
</ul><p>The following documentation has been added to the EGL collection:</p><ul>
<li><p><xref href="GUID-8C6D4350-A38D-57A1-8C8D-C777EA7E8A3E.dita">EGL
Collection</xref></p></li>
</ul><p>The following documentation
has been added to the Graphics Utilities collection:</p><ul>
<li><xref href="GUID-19C3DA8C-0128-5172-B859-4FD6F6197451.dita">Common
Graphics Headers Component Overview</xref></li>
<li><xref href="GUID-946E64D6-3E5D-5264-AD5D-29D3AD296543.dita">Selection
of Adaptations</xref></li>
</ul><p>The following documentation
has been added to the Graphics Composition collection:</p><ul>
<li><p><xref href="GUID-63CB6C7E-44EC-5D0B-A37D-FE78F7D76592.dita">Graphics
Composition Collection</xref></p></li>
</ul><p>The following documentation
has been added to the Graphics Hardware Drivers collection:</p><ul>
<li><p><xref href="GUID-4797000B-B61D-5EF8-8C38-3159433C9C7B.dita">Graphics
Hardware Drivers Collection</xref></p></li>
</ul><p>The following documentation has been updated:</p><ul>
<li><xref href="GUID-484B51EC-2209-5492-8E9C-9D792AB0DF35.dita">Graphics
and Drawing</xref></li>
<li><xref href="GUID-71DADA82-3ABC-52D2-8360-33FAEB2E5DE9.dita">The Font
and Bitmap Server Overview</xref></li>
</ul></section>
</conbody><related-links>
<link href="GUID-975CBC70-81E6-5FA2-80CE-88DD2ABE9595.dita"><linktext>Graphics
Guide</linktext></link>
</related-links></concept>