Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 10th Apr 2008 13:01 UTC, submitted by Rehdon
Ars Technica has an article about recent proposals to evolve the GTK+ toolkit: "The developers of GTK are preparing for a major overhaul that aims to resolve many of the framework's most significant deficiencies and add next-generation features that will increase flexibility and simplify development. This effort is still in the earliest planning stage, but several intriguing proposals provide valuable insight into some of the changes envisioned by prominent developers."
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Thanks for the info. What I need is a canvas library that keeps track of what is drawn.
I'll investigate goocanvas which uses cairo.
I don't know if cairo is better or worse than libart and if libgnomecanvas is better or worse than goocanvas, but I'll investigate. It looks like gcompris is moving avay from libgnomecanvas to goocanvas, so there must be good reasons to do this.
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For basic things such as handling events and good-quality 2d drawing, GtkDrawingArea and cairo is the perfect combination. You don't have to write a new widget, just use GtkDrawingArea and connect to the GDK events for mouse control etc, use the expose handler with cairo to draw.