Re: Word attachment...on linuxtoday

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On 17 Jan 2002, Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote:

> 
> Hello,
> 
> On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 08:46, Joe Shaw wrote:
> > [ Apologies, I haven't been reading the whole thread... -j ]
> > 
> > On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 09:40, Michael Meeks wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 19:22, Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote:
> > > > Is the sodipodi engine separated out into a library?  (And if so, then
> > > > are there any docs about using it... besides the source?)
> > > 
> > > 	No - read the source; check the module out from CVS, and hack wildly at
> > > it; if you want a library - make it a library; quite why you'd want to
> > > make it a library I know not. Mostly people dislike dependencies in
> > > libraries, and sodipodi is a relatively sane project that doesn't
> > > re-invent the wheel (badly) before achieving it's goals, and thus has a
> > > number of Gnome dependencies.
> > 
> > There also exists the librsvg library, which is used by Nautilus, which
> > takes SVG files/descriptions and renders them into GdkPixbufs, so that
> > might be more up your alley if you're looking for a library.
> 
> I looked at librsvg before, but as I understand it, it renders an SVG
> document into a static pixmap image.  So it is insufficient because I
> need something dynamic.  (That I can do animations with.)
> 

But you could re-render the frames into "back" buffers and only copy the
changed bits (think of a quadtree of depth n) to the front one? you would
be trading local mmemory speed (and processing power) for remote
display/grphics memory spped.

> See ya
> 
>      Charles Iliya Krempeaux
>      tnt @ linux.ca
>      ckrempea @ alumni.sfu.ca
> 

	Sander

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