I was looking for a way to display a simulation in Julia. Originally I was going to just use PyPlot, but it occurred to me it would be better to just use Gtk+ + Cairo to do the drawing rather than something whose main purpose is drawing graphs.
So far, following the examples on the Github page, I have no problem creating a window with a Cairo canvas. I can also display content on the canvas fairly easily (which speaks volumes on the awesomeness of Julia and the Gtk+ library). However, after looking through the code and samples, it's not obvious to me how to redraw the canvas every fraction of a second to display new content. I did find an example of animating with Cairo and Gtk+ in C (http://cairographics.org/threaded_animation_with_cairo/). However, I assume one would want to use Julia's timers instead of of GLibs? Secondly, there in their function 'timer_exe', call is made directly to Gtk+ to send a redraw queue to the window. Is there a cleaner way to do it with the Gtk+ library? Thanks! A
