swsurface

This crate provides a software-rendered surface for winit.

The goal of this crate is to provide a minimal drawing functionality for every platform supported by winit even if the drawing APIs that we usually assume are available, such as OpenGL¹, aren't available in the target environment. This crate is also useful as a fallback when they are available, but failed due to an unrecoverable error.

¹ “Servo on Windows in VirtualBox gets 'NoAvailablePixelFormat'” servo/servo #9468

To this end, this crate is designed to panic only when preconditions are not met or under very pathologic circumstances that would cause winit to panic.

Unimplemented features

• Partial update - The application can redraw a portion, but swsurface always sends entire the windowfor now

• Support for platforms other than: macOS, Windows, X11, Wayland

• X11: Support for color depths other than 24

• X11: Transparency

• Multi-threaded rendering (Send-able Surface)

• Color management - we'll try to stick to sRGB for now

License: MIT/Apache-2.0