Blog Post #0062: Cairo Load & Display Images

[bauss]

On Saturday, 17 August 2019 at 19:22:54 UTC, Ron Tarrant wrote:
> On Friday, 16 August 2019 at 12:44:15 UTC, bauss wrote:
>
>> Amazing! You might be able to answer me something, whether you 
>> could use gtkd solely for image manipulation using ex. Pixbuf? 
>> or would it only work with the internals of gtkd? Like can you 
>> manipulate the image and save it to disk etc.
>
> Those are very good questions, bauss. I haven't dug in that 
> deep yet, but I see no reason why Cairo couldn't be used to 
> build a full-featured paint, manipulation, or structured 
> drawing application. But it won't only be about Pixbufs. The 
> Cairo Context seems to be where all the action is as far as 
> drawing routines go.
>
> Over the next few months, off and on, I'll be exploring stuff 
> like that. I'm still working on getting through all the unsexy 
> stuff first (the basic widgets) but every once in a while, I 
> just have to let my hair down and do something that's a bit 
> more complex.
>
> After the basic image and drawing stuff is covered, I'll be 
> digging into simple animation and how to tame the Timeout. 
> Then, after a short side-trip to finish off MVC and do some 
> more base-level widgets such as the Toolbar, Statusbar, and 
> Expander, there's another Cairo miniseries coming up that 
> covers nodes and noodles, something I've wanted to dig into for 
> several years.
>
> Thanks for reading and thanks for the kind words.

Thank you for the answer.

I'll take a look at it myself sometime in the near future and see 
what I can come up with and if I can figure it out :)

Also thank you for these blog posts. I enjoy reading them, also 
the MVC ones.