We have several libraries we can choose from:<br><br><ul><li>GDI</li><li>GDI+</li><li>Windows Presentation Foundation (XP/2003/Vista only)</li><li>Cairo (portable) - Mozilla's choice, LGPL'ed<br></li></ul>Which should we use?
<br><br>They all have their pros/cons<br><br>GDI is a C library, Windows only, hardware accelerated on Vista, semi-hardware accelerated pre-Vista<br>GDI+ is object oriented, portable (sorta), hardware accelerated on Vista, software accelerated pre-Vista
<br>WPF is object oriented, not native C++, hardware accelerated on all supported platforms<br>Cairo is a C library, portable, hardware accelerated depending on implementation<br><br>