Re: Canvas change in gnome 1.2 (helix)

[Lauris Kaplinski <lauris ariman ee>]

On Fri, 26 May 2000 u07ih@abdn.ac.uk wrote:

> 
> > Nathan> Because of font brokenness.  I'm halfway through making a
> > Nathan> freetype based gnome-canvas-aa widget.  You've welcome to my
> > Nathan> partial code.
> > 
> > I have some code which I was playing with to integrate FreeType,
> > libart, and libpng in a Python module.  I was going to then use it to
> > build some charting modules which had nice text display.  I have
> > rotated text working quite nicely, but have not touched the code for
> > quite some time.
> > 
> > Here is a URL where I started to document how to use it:
> > 
> >         http://www.object-craft.com.au/paint_doc.html
> > 
> > Please get back to me if what I have done is of any interest.  I was
> > going to do some more work on it before releasing it, but have other
> > things on my plate right now (like starting a new consulting company).
> 
> http://www.gnome.org/todo/view.php3?id=2
> Miguel is looking for a canvas item kind of like this. 

AFAIK it would be nice to derive this complex beast from CanvasGroup,
consisting of multiple simpler (single font) text items.

Just suggestion

Lauris