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From: David Botton <david@botton.com>
Subject: Re: Cairo Bindings now added to Gnoga
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 12:08:02 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2014-10-28T12:08:02-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2afaef11-daa3-4c44-bcd4-fb8f3ca19ac6@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <hp3hx000z8hf$.1ap42cxvdcf7j.dlg@40tude.net>

> This looks very interesting, though I don't understand the architecture of
> it, as Cairo uses the native rendering backend.

Actually Cairo is not dependant on any backend. It outputs just as happily to bitmap in memory or as SVG and PDF.

> Gnoga rather usee browser for rendering.

Correct and browsers have both bitmap surfaces and SVG surfaces.

Currently with Cairo I am just outputting directly to files for the browser to load up, however at a later point, I'll add code to have cairo output directly over the websocket.

> Making it a bit more concrete, can you use this:
> 
> http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de/ada/aicwl.htm

Actually your controls were what gave me the idea of doing the Cairo bindings. At some point when I can take the time I want to attempt to adopt them to Gnoga.

David Botton


  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-28 19:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-24  6:07 Cairo Bindings now added to Gnoga David Botton
2014-10-28 16:18 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-10-28 19:08   ` David Botton [this message]
2014-10-28 21:07     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-10-28 22:18       ` David Botton
2014-10-29  9:06         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-10-29 15:11           ` David Botton
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