<quote who="Ken Foskey"> > I would like some advice what library or tool to writing a full GUI > application in Gnome for Linux. I need buttons, list boxes, etc and a > canvas to paint pixels with automatic zooming. > > I am working on a viewer program to view a print file using raster > graphics inside the file. The file will be either 300DPI, 600DPI or > 1200DPI, similar to the PDF viewer. You may think of the page being more > of a photo than text because that is the way it will be rendered. > > I would like to write a view program without too much effort that > specifies an A4 canvas and then paints the raster graphics onto that > canvas and the canvas can be zoomed automatically without me writing extra > code. A bonus would be features such as side by side viewing, or just > rolling down the pages like an openoffice.org document. > > Can someone advise on what GUI development tool is 'best' for Gnome Linux.
You know, it sounds like you could get away with writing a new backend for Evince, GNOME's document viewer (which uses Cairo to render PDFs and other formats). Rather than having to write an entire application, you can just write the renderer! :-) - Jeff -- The Great Australian Internet Blackout http://www.internetblackout.com.au/ "Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system." - From Monty Python to ESR, by way of Al Viro _______________________________________________ coders mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/coders
