Re: proper way to get cairo font width

[Tommi Sakari Uimonen <tuimonen cc hut fi>]

> Hi Tommi,
Hi Stefan :)

> > Hello. What is the best way to query font width from cairo, in case that I
> > want to set size_hint for the widget that is drawing with that font?
> would it help to construcz PangoLayouts and use pango_layout_get_extents().
I think I started some experiments already with Pango, but didn't progress 
very far. But for now, I can live with the 'ugly' way and think some 
smarter way later on.
Next step is to find how to store the rendered text as pixmap/image and 
use that instead of every time rendering the text, because that seems to 
be awfully slow. And since I know when the text has to be rendered again 
and when I can use the pixmap (for eg. scrolling when text does not 
change, only the position), this is the best approach.

Tommi