Re: Text properties and FTGL

[Shai Ayal]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 8:55 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 28-Oct-2008, Søren Hauberg wrote:
>
> | tir, 28 10 2008 kl. 13:44 -0400, skrev John W. Eaton:
> | > I would not want to link it too
> | > closely to a particular toolkit or widget.
> |
> | Would that really be that terrible? I mean, isn't it better to have
> | something that works with Cairo, than not having anything at all. Also,
> | Cairo isn't that tied to other high level toolkits. You can use it with
> | most (all?) high-level toolkits such as GTK and QT.
>
> My point was just to caution against making the link to a particular
> toolkit in such a way that it would be difficult to switch later.  I
> know very little about Cairo specifically, so I don't know whether it
> would be a good choice.  What would it be used for?
>
I'm not exactly sure, but I think using our current fltk_backend
analogy, cairo would be a replacement for OpenGL, not fltk since cairo
itself is just a canvas -- it has no widgets etc... Cairo is great for
2D -- much better than OpenGL IMHO, but has no support for 3D, which
is a bit problematic ....

Shai