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[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-07-09 20:00, Johannes Pfau wrote:
> Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
>> I'll see about contributing to your project in some way. I'm
>> interested in how Cairo's new opengl backend operates, animation works
>> somewhat ok with a win32 backend but it seems to quickly eat up
>> performance (that could be my mistake though). I'll give a shot at
>> using the cairo opengl backend via Derelict.
>
> I'm not sure if cairo's win32 backend uses some kind of
> acceleration? http://cairographics.org/threaded_animation_with_cairo/
> talks about performance&  animations, it's quite gtk specific, but
> maybe there's some useful information in there.
>
>> Also, the Cairo team recommends using pangocairo over Cairo's native
>> text rendering API functions for anything more complicated than simple
>> text rendering. The Pango dev and bin package from
>> http://www.gtk.org/download/index.php contains the pangocairo.h header
>> file which imports cairo.h, but pango also has a ton of other headers
>> so this might well be out of the scope of your project. I haven't
>> tried used pango's text rendering yet.
>
> I had a short look at pango some time ago as I also heard that it's the
> best way to do text rendering. Writing bindings for pango shouldn't be
> too difficult, but it's quite some work. All headers together are
> ~4800 lines of code. Pango also uses glib, so some glib bindings will
> also be needed. I think I'll finish the cairo wrapper first and then I
> might have a look at pango.
>

Aren't there already bindings for these libraries floating around 
somewhere out there? DWT should at least have partial bindings for these 
libraries.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg