Re: GTK Canvas

[Tim Janik <timj gtk org>]

On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 17:46 +0100, Jost Boekemeier wrote:

> > For example the next windows API uses a "retained
> > mode" for _all_ widgets and is able to do animations
> > on this level (the widgets pass down hints that
> > describe how the animation should work).
> >
> > It should be possible to write a GTK canvas on top of
> > a retained mode cairo API (for example the cairo_shape
> > API), but that's not on my list at the moment.
>
>  Oh, you're going to work on a cairo based canvas?  I had never heard
> of anyone starting such a project, except maybe something inside the
> criawips project...

jup, afaik, herzi is planning to do that for the criawips project and
i'm also interested in writing one for beast. i don't think there'd be
any merit in trying to maintain the GnomeCanvas' broken API though.

sven, is this still an active item on the criawips TODO?

> > Jost

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