Pango Layout, Cairo, and Drawing Areas

["Roy, Andre Robert" <t5pk1 unb ca>]

Hey Folks,

First time posting here.  I'm playing around with Gtkmm and am trying to create a custom
widget.  I'm trying to figure out how to write some text to the drawing area.  The docs
seem to tell me that I need to use Pango Layouts to do this, but fails to explain how
to do this in an understandable way.

Is there a good example out there that I could follow or a tutorial?

Thanks for the help

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Dre