Re: diacanvas2

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

On 11/15/06, Pavlo Korzhyk <pavlo korzhyk gmail com> wrote:
> On 11/15/06, Dodji Seketeli <dodji gnome org> wrote:
> > Hey Pavlo,
> >
> > You can have a look at
> http://libpapyrus.sourceforge.net/.
> > It uses libcairomm and is written in plain C++.
> > That library seems actively maintained and looks nice at first sight.
> >
> > If you use it, please post your feedbacks on this list so that it can
> > later serve as reference for other people who may have the same
> > questions.
> >
>
> I'm just started looking into both libraries, and papyrus seems to offer
> only drawing functionality.
> But rotations, movements, doubleclicks, mouse selections etc are much more
> complex task for
> a developer. And diacanvas seems to provide methods that simplify those
> interactions with user.
> DiaSolver is probably a thingy that simplifies automatic updates of links
> between objects.
> So diacanvas offers a lot of tasty features I don't want to code myself.
>
> After a fast look at tutorials diacanvas seems to be more suitable for tasks
> I listed in the previous letter.

You might also look at libgoocanvasmm
(https://gna.org/projects/libgoocanvasmm).  Paul Davis (one of them)
on this list is responsible for it, so he may be able to give you more
information.  I haven't had time to look at it much, but it sounds
like it might do what you need.

--
jonner