+IMPLEMENT_ABSTRACT_CLASS(wxDC, wxDCBase)
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// constants
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+static const int VIEWPORT_EXTENT = 1000;
+
+static const int MM_POINTS = 9;
+static const int MM_METRIC = 10;
+
+// usually this is defined in math.h
+#ifndef M_PI
+ static const double M_PI = 3.14159265358979323846;
+#endif // M_PI
+
+// ROPs which don't have standard names (see "Ternary Raster Operations" in the
+// MSDN docs for how this and other numbers in wxDC::Blit() are obtained)
+#define DSTCOPY 0x00AA0029 // a.k.a. NOP operation
+
+// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// macros for logical <-> device coords conversion
+// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+/*
+ We currently let Windows do all the translations itself so these macros are
+ not really needed (any more) but keep them to enhance readability of the
+ code by allowing to see where are the logical and where are the device
+ coordinates used.
+ */
+
+// logical to device
+#define XLOG2DEV(x) (x)
+#define YLOG2DEV(y) (y)
+
+// device to logical
+#define XDEV2LOG(x) (x)
+#define YDEV2LOG(y) (y)
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// private functions
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+// convert degrees to radians
+static inline double DegToRad(double deg) { return (deg * M_PI) / 180.0; }
+
+// call AlphaBlend() to blit contents of hdcSrc to hdcDst using alpha
+//
+// NB: bmpSrc is the bitmap selected in hdcSrc, it is not really needed
+// to pass it to this function but as we already have it at the point
+// of call anyhow we do
+//
+// return true if we could draw the bitmap in one way or the other, false
+// otherwise
+static bool AlphaBlt(HDC hdcDst,
+ int x, int y, int w, int h,
+ HDC hdcSrc,
+ const wxBitmap& bmpSrc);
+
+#ifdef wxHAVE_RAW_BITMAP
+// our (limited) AlphaBlend() replacement
+static void
+wxAlphaBlend(HDC hdcDst, int x, int y, int w, int h, const wxBitmap& bmp);