Re: [gtk-list] What is a canvas?

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico helixcode com>]

>    I hear references to GnomeCanvas, and using canvases in Guppi, etc.
>  What is a canvas exactly?  Is it just an array of RGB bytes that you can
>  paint on, free-form, and then send to X?

No.  The GNOME Canvas is a generic engine for structured graphics:

	http://developer.gnome.org/arch/imaging/canvas.html

  Federico