[Clipart] Re: svg shell extension

[Andy Burns]

Carl Worth wrote:

> One you might take a look at is libsvg-cairo. The parsing code is
> derived from an older version of librsvg, but the rendering is all
> done with cairo. 

I'd looked at cairo itself (v0.3 not cvs) and it didn't seem to have a 
win32 backend, I saw mention of win32 on it's mailing list but it seemed 
to be only a few days/weeks old and still with some unsettled 
differences of opinion.

With X.org, Mono and Gnome using cairo it looks more "strategic" than 
librsvg alone, but I wonder if librsvg would be easier for my first 
"quick and dirty" get something working version?

Is MinGW required or will VC++ compile it?

> One interesting for this application is that cairo
> recently received a GDI-based win32 backend so that you could draw
> directly to a win32 window rather than rendering to memory and then
> moving the bits to the window.

Actually what I need *is* an off-screen bitmap which I have to return to 
explorer as a HBITMAP, I don't get asked to draw direct to screen.