On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 02:04:18AM +0100, Tor-Einar Jarnbjo wrote: > Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: > > >Another think that I wonder, for the windowing stuff, why don't we use > >Cairo[1]? > > Isn't Cairo just a rendering library?
Err, yes...it offers drawing primitives for things such as lines and points and glyphs, on top of other platforms such as X11 and win32. > AFAIK, it does not offer any kind > of e.g. portable widget access, Aye, I think not. > which is probably the most tricky thing > to implement for AWT. I wouldn't know. I can imagine its less work to build on top of Cairo than to build on top of X11/win32/etc directly, since Cairo is precisely designed to fulfill the gap between something like AWT (or GTK or wxWindows or ...) and the underlying system. But even then a windowing toolkit is always a whole lot of work. > Swing can be implemented in pure Java, based on > some simple native support by AWT (open window and supply a Graphics > object into which the content can be rendered). I don't see where Cairo > can offer much help in that area? Well, that Graphics object at some points needs rendering to the screen doesn't it? :-) cheers! LSD
