Re: vector drawing programs

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

JParker coinstar com writes:
> G'Day !
>
> I am working on a vector drawing program.  One of the requirements is that it
> may only depend on Gtk+ libraries (ie no GNOME)
>
> I want to be able to use NURBS surfaces and other more "advanced" 3D graphics,
> then the primitives available under Gdk.  Are there such objects available or do
> I need to create (or extend) my own widget.
>
> The tutorial mentions curves, but it is completely undocumented.  A quick glance
> indicates that this may be a cubic spline (?) and 2D only.

For 3D you probably want to use OpenGL; look at the GtkGLArea widget,
available on the net.

Havoc