[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] 2D Library, Vector Library or similar.

[From: Beth]

Hi Carl. As soon as I have the data providers for the application (I
currently have them but not clients on linux nor windows (as I said
previously I was doing my first tests with ajax + php and svg), I will
do some performance tests to see what are my real needs, and also
everyone will have an idea of what it could be done.

Regardssss, see you.

On 11/21/06, Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 10:34:30 +0100, Beth wrote:
> > Hi Xan, I will try to get two implementations working, one with a
> > GtkDrawingArea and other with cairo.
>
> Those aren't mutually-exclusive options. The best way to draw on a
> GtkDrawingArea (in my opinion) is to do that with cairo.
>
> See, for example the second half of this tutorial:
>
> http://www.gnomejournal.org/article/34/writing-a-widget-using-cairo-and-gtk28
>
> If you just write a function to handle the expose event of your
> GtkDrawingArea then you can use cairo to draw in it as much as you'd
> like.
>
> > Sure that I will be here making a bit of noise (jeje maybe boring
> > noise but ...)
>
> I'm the cairo maintainer, and I recently subscribed to this mailing
> list. We're currently working on improving the cairo performance as
> much as possible, (and many of the people actively working on it are
> doing it with a focus on embedded devices such as the 770).
>
> So please give it a try, and if things are slower than you'd like or
> expect, let us know so we can look at those cases that you are
> hitting.
>
> -Carl
>
>
>


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