TO DO

The following are some ideas for the future:

Have a perfect polygon fill routine

The polygon fill routine I use isn't perfect, and sometimes it fills wrong. I need to fix this.

Hatched Fills

Not just solid fill patterns, but hatched (generated) patterns. Due to the optimization method this module uses for fills and drawing horizontal lines, this may be difficult to implement. However, I don't believe in the impossible (I wrote a Perl graphics module for example).

The horizontal gradient fill method of fills should make this possible, It just needs to be adapted for hatched fills.

Polygons With Rounded Corners

Polygons with rounded corners would be difficult, but doable. It has become quite difficult to get working so far. I haven't given up.

Rounded Clipping Regions

This one is a user request. Well, they also requested polygon clipping regions too, but come on, this is Perl. Circles may be doable, and maybe even ellipses, but polygons aren't happening.

Inline C Acceleration

I consider this the holy grail of this project, and my opportunity to get into coding in C (I have been putting it off for years).

I have figured out how to "plot" in C, and it works. Which means drawing the primitives and such would be a no-brainer. However, I don't know how to integrate the variables from C with Perl. The Inline and XS documentation is not too well written. Just figuring out how to pass initialized structures to Perl is a veritable undocumented nightmare. I'd like to do this to eliminate the need for "fbset", as Perl alone just doesn't retrieve structures properly for all CPUs.

A lot of the "tutorials" and such out there read like Gaelic mixed with Swahili in a Slavic accent, and with a lisp.