Hi all, On Do, 2005-11-17 at 12:47 +0100, Jean Bréfort wrote: > It seems that things do not advance a lot by now. AFAIK, no much work > have been done except Alexander Larsson's patch available at: > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318807 > > David Bellot told me he is too busy at the moment to work on the canvas > and, personally, I am not just not able to write the whole thing alone. > As GnomeCanvas does not fulfill all my needs and might be soon > deprecated, I decided to replace it for GChemPaint by a light canvas (I > do not need many items, nor an optimized canvas) starting from > libgnomecanvas code. > > At the moment, I am working on a text item (still for the Gnome Canvas) > which uses Cairo and Pango for rendering. Hopefully, this code might be > useful for GtkCanvas if it exists one day ;-) sorry for the late reply, but I have been busy on the LWE 2005 in Frankfurt the last days. I was talking with Thomas Uhl about a cairo-based canvas for GTK+ which doesn't inherit ANY of the limitations that the GNOME Canvas and the deriving ones (Foocanvas, Goocanvas, etc.) already have [2]. Good news now: Thomas is sponsoring my work on a cairo based canvas which I want to use for my presentation application and which he needs for several other projects. The contract says that I will finish my work until the middle of February. I still have 3 weeks at my former employer, so I'd like to use these three weeks for discussion of the canvas and how it should be like. I've already set up a wiki page [1] about this. Feel free to add requirement there and please provide API samples if you need special features (so I have a clear impression of what you need). [1]http://www.criawips.org/wiki/Canvas [2]These limitations are (partially) documented on my canvas wiki page. Regards, Sven
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