If you are going to look at libraries that are used for display rendering you might also want to check out
Rasterman's Imlib2 http://www.enlightenment.org/Libraries/Imlib2/ (he may also be working on a successor there as well, one of the e-somethings but I can't work out which one) I guess Gdk from the Gnome suite might also be able to be used) Martin Visser Technology Consultant Consulting & Integration Technology Solutions Group - HP Services 410 Concord Road Rhodes NSW 2138 Australia Mobile: +61-411-254-513 Fax: +61-2-9022-1800 E-mail: martin.visserAThp.com This email (including any attachments) is intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above and may contain information that is confidential, proprietary or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify HP immediately by return email and then delete the email, destroy any printed copy and do not disclose or use the information in it. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Erik de Castro Lopo Sent: Wednesday, 19 April 2006 4:23 PM To: slug@slug.org.au Subject: Re: [SLUG] Graphics library Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > The API to cairo is really really nice, And it has <gasp> documentation </gasp>. > I suspect it may be a little involved to do what you want with it, but > it's certainly possible. I didn't mention it earlier because I > thought ImageMagick would have been a more appropriate tool. The use of image magick as a library has willfully slaughtered way too many of my brain cells for me to ever forgive you for that :-). Erik -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo +-----------------------------------------------------------+ "We can build a better product than Linux" -- Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating-system chief, Jim Allchin. One has to wonder why, with their huge resources, they haven't. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html