[cairo] Write ups on Microsoft Avalon
Vladimir Vukicevic
vladimir at pobox.com
Fri May 7 14:31:35 PDT 2004
Carl Worth wrote:
> On Fri, 7 May 2004 06:44:11 -0700 (PDT), Jon Smirl wrote:
>
>>If Cairo is missing basic compatibility at the drawing operation level it will
>>be very difficult for things like mono to fix it.
>
>
> And a project like mono is the right thing to flush this kind of issue out.
>
> My understanding is that mono is using cairo to implement an interface
> that is compatible with GDI+.
>
> I expect the mono crowd to let us know if anything is missing.
Mono's libgdiplus is implemented on top of cairo, and is intended to be
compatible with GDI+ so that mono's implementation of System.Drawing can
run under both windows (with native GDI+) and unix systems. I don't
think we've run into any major issues; one of the big missing pieces was
the "path gradient" stuff that I mentioned a while ago, but it's not a
showstopper -- I've only run into one app that uses it, and it's easy
enough to stub out with a radial gradient or even a solid fill.
The big problem with comparing GDI+ and Cairo is that GDI+ takes very
much a kitchen-sink approach, whereas Cairo seems to be more about the
core building blocks. Much of System.Windows.Media seems very similar
to System.Drawing, so Cairo, along with a more higher level layer,
should be able to provide the necessary drawing functionality.
- Vlad
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