I am playing with DxScene and VxScene: http://www.ksdev.com/dxscene/index.html
It looks very nice and powerful: 3d accelerated vector graphics, cross plaform, nice effects, many 2d GUI controls (vector based), good scaling, transparency, rotating (x, y, z), 3d models, etc. Even with many effects, the CPU stays very low (0%)! http://www.ksdev.com/dxscene/snapshot/screen0.jpeg
But can it be seen as a good WPF alternative for Delphi?
And does anyone use it instead of normal Delphi VCL?
You might find this article interesting, it explains how to use the DirectWrite and Direct2D features in Delphi 2010, it seems to be rather simple, and is well explained here: Delphi 2010 DirectWrite "Hello World" Example [1].
Screenshot from the article showing the result.
[1] http://blogs.embarcadero.com/pawelglowacki/2009/12/14/38872
Yes, I am using it now in a new project and intend to use it for all future projects.
It's indeed extremely powerful and versatile. It does consume SVG and even XAML, among many other formats, so you could consider it as a Win32 API WPF alternative. Believe me, I've been looking for one for ages, and this is it for me.
Current drawback: lack of documentation. You have to learn it all from the examples and by asking questions in their forum. Not ideal, but it can only get better!
All it needs is more users, and it'll grow into something wonderful.
It looks very promising, the effects are very good, in the past years I have seen it's being enhanced constantly. I have check it the second time today (only the compiled demo), it seems that many new controls are added, I like the "expander" expandable panel.
It's very promising, I'm consider using it in the future, I'm not sure if the new version has fix or not, but when the first time I checked the trial version, it lacks of documentation...
Very good effect and promising though!
