Re: Cairo 0.91 (beta)

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

Hi;

On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 09:00 -0400, James Muir wrote:

> About a year ago Torsten and muppet informed me that the Gnome2::Canvas 
> days were numbered (it has been deprecated). muppet said that the 
> Gnome2::Canvas would be available for about a year to 18 months.
>
> So I suppose it's time to make the switch to Cairo. Just one thing 
> concerns me at the moment. Can I use Glib::Object::Subclass with Cairo 
> to create and respond to signals as I can with Gnome2::Canvas ?

Cairo is *not* a canvas - but you can use Cairo to create a canvas
widget using Glib::Object and Gtk2.  Some have already started doing
this in C, like goocanvas or ccc (criawips cairo canvas); if you need
something more specialised I'm sure you can create something in pure
perl.

Also, Cairo is not based on Glib, so you don't get to subclass its data
types using Glib::Object::Subclass.

Ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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