Everything about Graphics Device Interface
Microsoft Windows API
The Graphics Device Interface (GDI) is a legacy component of Microsoft Windows responsible for representing graphical objects and transmitting them to output devices such as monitors and printers. It was superseded by DirectDraw API and later Direct2D API. Windows apps use Windows API to interact with GDI, for such tasks as drawing lines and curves, rendering fonts, and handling palettes. The Windows USER subsystem uses GDI to render such UI elements as window frames and menus. Other systems have components that are similar to GDI; for example: Mac OS had QuickDraw, and Linux and Unix have X Window System core protocol. Wikipedia →
🧠Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Graphics Device InterfaceA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Graphical user interface design for a calibration device for infrared tympanic thermometersInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Programming with QtThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: The Computer Graphics Virtual Device InterfaceCited 6 times
- Go sideways: Desktop Window ManagerA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Windows Display Driver ModelA closely related topic
đź“– Definitions
No dictionary entry for this exact phrase.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
The Computer Graphics Virtual Device Interface
A Prototype Development of Locating Device with Graphics User Interface upon Display Using Multipoints Infrared Reflection
🆕 Influential since 2022
đź“š Books worth reading
Programming with QtMatthias Kalle Dalheimer · 1999
Handbook of Visual Display TechnologyJanglin Chen · 2012- 📕The VIS-AD data modelWilliam L. Hibbard · 1994
Evolutionary synthesis of pattern recognition systemsBir Bhanu · 2005
Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and DesignPenousal Machado · 2012- 📕A comparison of two control display unit concepts on flight management system trainingTerence S. Abbott · 1997
- 📕An evaluation and redesign of the conflict prediction and trial planning planview graphical user interfaceIrene V. Laudeman · 1998
- 📕Graphical user interface for stepper motor based filter wheel controlT. A. Rajesh · 2008
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