Re: GtkCanvas requirements?



Hmm: Once again I too fast on pressing send and forgot the links:

Vala: http://live.gnome.org/Vala
EggDocument: http://taschenorakel.de/svn/repos/eggdocument/trunk/

Am Samstag, den 21.04.2007, 17:49 +0200 schrieb Mathias Hasselmann:
> Am Samstag, den 21.04.2007, 10:30 -0500 schrieb Federico Mena Quintero:
> > [Side note... at this point I think doing a canvas in C is a big
> > mistake.  Interesting canvases will inevitably get cycles in the pointer
> > graph, and reference counting becomes just too painful then.  [This is
> > irrelevant to .net or whatever; it's a general We Should Stop Writing
> > Nontrivial Shit In C thing.  People would be really really happy with
> > the Piccolo.NET API implemented with pygtk or gtk-sharp.]]
> 
> I'd rather consider using Vala in that case: It gives you a highlevel
> syntax for the GObject system, whilest generating native, binding
> friendly code. GNOME avoids using high-level languages for libraries
> for good reason: Bindings and politics.
> 
> Used it for toying with some document model for printing [1] and expect
> for minor bugs in Vala's code generator, which where resolved quickly,
> vala worked pretty well for me in creating a native GObject library.
> 
> 
> Ciao,
> Mathias
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Mathias Hasselmann <mathias hasselmann gmx de>
http://taschenorakel.de/

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