On Sun, 2014-08-03 at 00:21 +0530, Gurjot Singh Bhatti wrote: > This may have been asked many times already
Yes, in the last years a have found a few similar questions with google, in most cases not with VERY helpful replies. I myself have used cairo with a GTK drawing area for my schematics tool, and it was not a bad choice for that task: It gives me all the freedom I need for that application, it looks fine and is fast enough -- I am not sure if Ruby or cairo is currently more the limiting factor, I guess both. (I am using bounding boxes for my objects and redraw only when content has changed. http://www.ssalewski.de/PetEd.html.en) I think your general conclusion is right, but you do not report about a few important aspects: First, when you have already experience with Qt, why do you not use QGraphicsView? I heard it is fine -- for C++ it may be a good choice, for other languages you have to check if bindings are available -- I think not for Rust or Ninrod, for Julia, Haskell I am not sure. One important aspect may be drawing performance. Cairo in not very fast by default, I think OpenGl and multi-treading support is limited, at least I found no nice examples for really fast drawing. And generally OpenGl for GTK is not very well supported -- GTKGLEXT may work with GTK3, but I am not sure and there is not much recent activity. _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
