[Gambas-devel] gb3: Image.Draw method is missing when using gb.sdl

[Kevin Fishburne]

I'm in the process of converting my app from gb.image only to gb.image + 
gb.sdl to improve rendering performance. To my horror I noticed that the 
Draw method is no longer available. I'm using the following components:

gb
gb.image
gb.image.effect
gb.image.io
gb.net
gb.sdl
gb.sdl.sound

There is a Copy method, though it doesn't have parameters to specify the 
destination coordinates or width/height for scaling. It's like the Draw 
method with only the first four parameters. Interestingly good old 
DrawAlpha seems to still be there (yay!).

Should there be a Draw method, or is there a different way to achieve 
the same functionality? It looks like using "Draw.Image(...)" will work, 
so I may have to integrate my rendering directly into the SDL backbuffer 
(Screen_Draw[]), though that would require a rewrite of the rendering 
pipeline. Final question, if there was an Image.Draw method, would that 
bypass SDL and use software rendering? If so it may be best for me to 
rewrite the rendering pipeline so it's pure SDL.

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