[cairo] How can I draw a text above an image in cairo

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 18:16 -0500, yinglcs2 at yahoo.com wrote:
> 
> cairo_surface_t *image;
> image = cairo_image_surface_create_from_png ("bullet.png");

You don't paint the image at all.

cairo_set_source_surface (cr2, image);
cairo_paint(cr2);

> int iw, ih;
> iw = cairo_image_surface_get_width (image);
> ih = cairo_image_surface_get_height (image);
> 
> cairo_translate (cr2, -0.5*iw, -0.5*ih);
> 
> cairo_set_source_rgb(cr2, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0);        
> 
> 
>         cairo_move_to (cr2, x, y);
>         cairo_show_text (cr2, buffer);
> 
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