Re: GooCanvas 0.3

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Damon Chaplin wrote:
> I've put GooCanvas 0.3 (a GTK+ cairo canvas widget) up at:
>   http://www.dachaplin.dsl.pipex.com/goocanvas/
>
> This release adds pretty much all of my list of essential features:
>
>  o New GooCanvasPath item (similar to SVG path element).
>  o Accessibility support.
>  o Keyboard focus navigation.
>  o API documentation.
>  o Convenience functions for coordinate conversions.
>  o Smooth scrolling & zooming.
>  o Zoom-independent text layout.
>  o Render part or all of canvas to a cairo_t, for ps/pdf output.
>  o New "visibility" and "visibility-threshold" properties for items.
>  o New "pointer-events" property specifying which parts of items get
>    events (like SVG).
>
> It should be usable now. Though there will probably be a few bugs to
> iron out.
>
> The main thing I want to add now is an editable text item, like
> GtkTextView. Other than that it depends on what features people need.

Back in the day we added a "semi-private" API to GtkTextView with this 
in mind, maybe you can use it if nobody has deleted it since... I think 
you could even have a single GtkTextBuffer shared with the widget and a 
canvas item.

Havoc