I thought it might be better to ask here that make an issue on Cairo.jl but
I can do that instead if necessary.
I am adding calls to the pango text API and have some questions:
1 - How did people manage without these? Is everyone using the Cairo "toy"
API? Or have I missed some already existing interface?
2 - If this is needed, then:
2a - Is my renaming of functions OK (I have systematically pulled the verb
to the front)?
2b - Is my handling of memory management OK (I have copied arrays of
(persistent?) pointers so I can free memory within the routine that
allocated it; I am calling Libc.free instead of g_free)?
2c - I strongly feel these should be more typesafe than they are right
now. Should I do that by (for example) "immutable FontFamily p Ptr{Void}
end" or is there some other preferred approach)?
3 - What's with the \040 in my bytestrings? See output below.
The code is at
https://github.com/andrewcooke/Drawing.jl/blob/master/src/cairo.jl and is
incomplete. I'm asking now because I'm starting to worry about type safety
and don't want to have to rewrite a bunch of code if this should be folded
into Cairo.jl later.
Finally, here is partial output from
https://github.com/andrewcooke/Drawing.jl/blob/master/test/experiments/list_fonts.jl
(see 3 above - why the \040?)
...
Droid Sans Tamil false
Regular
Bold
Italic
Bold Italic
TeX\040tipass8 false
\040Regular
Italic
Bold
Bold Italic
TeX\040tipass9 false
\040Regular
Italic
Bold
Bold Italic
...
Thanks,
Andrew
