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[gang-of-4-patterns] Design pattern is GDI

From: "Mandar Nanivadekar" <stackoverflow AT rediffmail.com>
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Subject: [gang-of-4-patterns] Design pattern is GDI
Date: 1 Dec 2004 10:25:15 -0000
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Hello all,

I have a question.
GDI in windows is a device driver abstraction.
The client programmer does not know which device he is programming to.
It may be a display or a printer etc.
GDI hides all this,
and chooses the device driver currently installed on the machine.
The device driver written for windows has to conform to a particular interface. Hence GDI can work with any device.

Which design pattern is this?
Is it a factory?

Rgds,
Mandar

[gang-of-4-patterns] Design pattern is GDI, Mandar Nanivadekar, 12/01/2004
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