On Saturday, 17 August 2019 at 19:22:54 UTC, Ron Tarrant wrote:
On Friday, 16 August 2019 at 12:44:15 UTC, bauss wrote:
Amazing! You might be able to answer me something, whether you
could use gtkd solely for image manipulation using ex. Pixbuf?
or would it only work with the internals of gtkd? Like can you
manipulate the image and save it to disk etc.
Those are very good questions, bauss. I haven't dug in that
deep yet, but I see no reason why Cairo couldn't be used to
build a full-featured paint, manipulation, or structured
drawing application. But it won't only be about Pixbufs. The
Cairo Context seems to be where all the action is as far as
drawing routines go.
Over the next few months, off and on, I'll be exploring stuff
like that. I'm still working on getting through all the unsexy
stuff first (the basic widgets) but every once in a while, I
just have to let my hair down and do something that's a bit
more complex.
After the basic image and drawing stuff is covered, I'll be
digging into simple animation and how to tame the Timeout.
Then, after a short side-trip to finish off MVC and do some
more base-level widgets such as the Toolbar, Statusbar, and
Expander, there's another Cairo miniseries coming up that
covers nodes and noodles, something I've wanted to dig into for
several years.
Thanks for reading and thanks for the kind words.
Thank you for the answer.
I'll take a look at it myself sometime in the near future and see
what I can come up with and if I can figure it out :)
Also thank you for these blog posts. I enjoy reading them, also
the MVC ones.
