Re: using cairo inside gtkmm?

["Jonathon Jongsma" <jonathon jongsma gmail com>]

On 6/18/06, Xiangfei Jia <xjianz gmail com> wrote:
> I know that cairomm is not available on windows at the moment. But, I know
> there is a way to call gtk+ functions inside gtkmm. So, Is it possible to
> directly use cairo in gtkmm? Can anyone show me some short codes about how
> to achieve it?
>
> Thanks in advance!!!


Yes, you can use cairo directly from gtkmm.  To create the cairo
context, you have to use a GTK+ function (GDK actually).  For example:

cairo_t* cr = gdk_cairo_create(gtkmm_widget.get_window()->gobj());
// now you can use cr with regular cairo functions

Jonner