Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > Ales Katona wrote: > >> Not from my head, just googled out stuff: >> >> GTK+ <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTK%2B>, starting in 2005 with >> version 2.8, uses Cairo to render the majority of its widgets >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widget_%28computing%29>. >> >> > > Thanks for pointing me to wikipedia. I found the following page listed > below. It's an informative page that helped explain Cairo to me. It's > seems my comparison with SDL, AggPas etc was spot on. In summary, Cairo > is a platform neutral API to 2D graphics. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_%28graphics%29 >
Additionally, there's an ongoing effort to port the graphics WebKit backend to cairo under windows to avoid the binary only graphic library used currently. Another relevant aspect of cairo, is the ability to have the same output to different targets (screen, image, pdf, ps) using the same code. That's handy, e.g., to print preview screens. Luiz _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
