Eventually a search for Cairo.jl information led me blundering into the following two pieces (which should be added to the tutorials under a heading like "Graphics Usage in Julia"):
http://julialang.org/blog/2013/05/graphical-user-interfaces-part1/ http://julialang.org/blog/2013/05/graphical-user-interfaces-part2/ These seem quite necessary to anyone not already familiar with the subject! On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 2:06 AM, Andreas Lobinger <[email protected]> wrote: > For 2) > 2) A good lightweight graphics package for such simple-minded tasks as a > 2D game board with round pieces on a square grid. > The lowest common denominator for just drawing would be Cairo.jl, a > declarative way to draw something would be Compose.jl (which then does the > drawing via Cairo.jl). > > >
