Fwd: Ann: GtkCanvas 0.1

[Matthew <matthew mattshouse com>]

Thanks a load, Andy.  Maybe Havoc will clear it for 1.4/2.0.

Matthew

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Subject: Ann: GtkCanvas 0.1
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 100 01:28:39 -0700 (PDT)
From: Andy Tai <atai@ece.ucsd.edu>
To: gnome-list@gnome.org


(I have sinned. GNOME developers, please pardon me)

This is to announce GtkCanvas 0.1, a backport of the GnomeCanvas widget to
gtk+.  It can be downloaded from

http://www.atai.org/gtk-canvas/gtk-canvas-0.1.tar.gz

As a generic gtk+ widget, GtkCanvas only depends on GdkImlib and gtk+.
This widget behaves identically to the GnomeCanvas widget, with the same
 APIs, except the API names are changed from gnome_canvas to gtk_canvas.

Currently the widget still depends on GdkImLib, which is available from

ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/sources/imlib/

Modern GNU/Linux distributions like Red Hat should come with it already. 
 Since the next version of gtk+ will drop GdkImLib and intgrate with
 gdk-pixbuf, it is expected that future versions of this widget will depend
 upon gtk+ only.

I intend to have GtkCanvas follows GnomeCanvas closely and merges new code
whenever a stable release of the latter is made.  Thus this is not really a
fork but rather a "re-packaging" of the same code.  I recommend that people
consider using the GNOME libraries first before using this widget, as the
 GNOME framework provides many services, much more than a canvas widget.

If the gtk+ maintainers decide someday to place this widget into gtk+, then I
shall turn this to them and stop distribute this widget separately.

***PLEASE CONSIDER USING THE GNOME FRAMEWORK first before using this
 widget!!!

Again, I basically did a re-packing.  The main authors of this software were
Federico Mena <quartic@gimp.org> (GnomeCanvas) and Raph Levien <raph@acm.org>
(libart_lgpl).

Since this is the first release of this widget, there may be bugs.
Please let me know of any problems.

Thanks,
Andy Tai

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Li-Cheng Tai (Andy Tai)                       e-mail: atai@atai.org

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