Hi Guys, On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Jean-Sébastien Guay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> P. S. If I'm real lucky, Robert has expressed a VERY slight interest in >> merging some small part of osgCairo into OSG itself, but we'll have to >> see. At any rate, to know it works on Windows would help no matter >> what. :)
Just for clarification, last week I began looking at svg, pdf and webkit integration with via Cairo, and osgCairo being the vehicle that I used for much of this investigation work. Offline I've been discussing with Jeremy the various possibilities for Cairo integration with the OSG. After dabbling over the past week I'm still not sure of the best way to progress, but am inclined towards just providing a light weight CarioImage class in osgWidget. The CairoImage class would provide the glue between the cairo context, cairo surface and osg::Image, and then have osgPlugins for pdf, svg and webkit extend this to provide the advanced feature integration. Cairo itself is useful beyond the needs of pdf, svg and webkit integration, as osgPango illustrates, it's usefulness for certain types of apps is pretty compelling, but as yet I'm not sure about whether providing our own C++ wrappers for Cairo is the right approach, or whether we should defer this to other libraries such as the existing C++ wrappers for Cairo and just provide the minimal glue required such as CairoImage. In terms of porting the CairoImage class would be just be a non op if users don't have Cairo installed on their machines, and the plugins would be optional built as well, so you'll only need Cairo, WebKit, Poppler, rsvg libs if you want the associated functionality. Getting this libs working under a Linux distribution will be trivial as most modern distributions will have them all precompiled with dev headers in the repositories only a click away, for Windows and OSX we'll have to explore how easy it is to build. J-S's work on getting osgPango and osgCairo compiling all good prep for this ;-) Robert. _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
