Re: Image display widget?

[Andreas Volz <lists brachttal net>]

Am Sun, 24 Feb 2008 15:34:23 -0600 schrieb Jonathon Jongsma:

> 
> On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 20:11 +0100, Andreas Volz wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > For my application I need a simple image display widget. I should
> > look like as if I would embedd eye of gnome in my window. It should
> > only support the basic functions like zoom/pan/rotate/mirror.
> > 
> > I found GtkImageViewer[1] for that reason. It's exactly what I need.
> > But it has a C API. I could wrap it, but it uses the deprecated
> > Gdk:GC drawable. So I'm not sure if a Cairo reimplementation is
> > better.
> > 
> > Or do you know a good extra widget for my purposes?
> > 
> > regards
> > Andreas
> > 
> > [1] http://giv.sourceforge.net/gtk-image-viewer/
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> 
> There is also GtkImageView (no R) that's also intended to be a
> reusable image viewer widget: http://trac.bjourne.webfactional.com/.
> I have no idea what the differences between them are, but I thought I
> would mention that one as well.  That one is also C, I believe, but
> you're unlikely to find one that isn't.  Good luck.

Is it a problem to use a widget that is based in Gdk::GC? The website
says that this is deprecated in favor of Cairo. Will there be a time
schedule to remove Gdk::GC in future? Or will it be supported for a
long time?

regards
Andreas