Re: Example in 2.4 docs does not build - no cairomm include files

[Nick <halbtaxabo-debml yahoo com>]

Thanks for the helpful reply. I'll use the packaged
docs (which don't mention Cairo). For me, stability
and accurate documentation are many times more
important than "the latest way of doing it".

It does seem to me that putting Cairo stuff in the
tutorial for gtkmm 2.4 on the web site is very
confusing. But perhaps I'm just easily confused.

In any case, you've pointed me to a solution, so this
is a "thank you", not a complaint.

Nick

--- Jonathon Jongsma <jonathon jongsma gmail com>
wrote:

> The examples for the Cairo functionality are
> actually not available in
> a released version of gtkmm yet.  This functionality
> is only available
> in cvs, so it won't work with the version of gtkmm
> that you have
> installed.
> If you're simply trying to learn gtkmm, I'd
> recommend that you install
> the libgtkmm2.4-doc package and follow the
> documentation from there
> (i.e. /usr/share/doc/libgtkmm-2.4-doc/index.html). 
> Then you're
> guaranteed that the docs will be synchronized with
> the gtkmm version
> that you have installed.  There's an older drawing
> API that is used in
> existing versions of gtkmm, so you'll still be able
> to draw with your
> version of gtkmm, you just won't be able to use the
> new Cairo API.
> 
> If you're really interested in trying the Cairo
> functionality, there
> are a couple of options.  The first is to build
> gtkmm and cairomm from
> CVS (probably using jhbuild -- but note that you'll
> need the HEAD
> branch for the Cairo functionality, not the branch
> currently specified
> in the jhbuild modules file).
> The second option is to install cairomm but keep
> your existing gtkmm
> installation.  This would require you to use the
> underlying GDK
> function gdk_cairo_create(GdkDrawable *drawable)
> instead of
> Gdk::Window::create_cairo_context() and then wrap
> the resulting
> cairo_t* value using the Cairo::Context(cairo_t*
> cobject, bool
> has_reference) constructor.
> The third option is to not install anything and just
> use the straight
> C cairo interface.
> 
> On 12/25/05, Nick <halbtaxabo-debml yahoo com>
> wrote:
> > I'm trying to learn gtkmm by using the docs at:
> >
>
http://www.gtkmm.org/docs/gtkmm-2.4/docs/tutorial/html/index.html
> >
> > However, the example at:
> >
>
http://www.gtkmm.org/docs/gtkmm-2.4/docs/tutorial/html/ch14s07.html
> > doesn't compile because it requires an include
> file,
> > <cairomm/context.h>, that isn't installed. I'm
> using
> > Debian Sarge and installed the Debian package
> > libgtkmm2.4-dev and its dependencies, as
> recommended
> > by the gtkmm team here:
> > http://www.gtkmm.org/download.shtml
> >
> >
> >
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