[cairo] cairoxx

[Rui Pires]

Great !

The coding style seems similar to the one I was thinking of using. With the 
exception of the capitalization in first letter of the methods (but that's 
only small details).

By the way, another thing that I tough of was the possibility to have 
automatic status checks (after any operation that might fail) and react to 
that failure by (optionaly) throwing an exception.
I think this is a good idea, but as I don't have too much experience using 
cairo i'm still unsure. It's certainly a better way of checking for error 
conditions, but cairo seems to be able to keep going even if certain errors 
occurs (say, cairo_create() is called when cairo_status()==
CAIRO_STATUS_NO_MEMORY).
This could eventualy be made in a way it was possible to disable the checks 
with a #define or with a simple bool in the wrapper class.
What do you think of this ?

If you need any help, just ask.
Cheers,

Rui Pires.


On 9/21/05, Evan Martin <martine at danga.com> wrote:
> 
> I've been doing exactly this. I should put this code up somewhere.
> It's currently just a 283-line header file that does the obvious
> wrapping. Here's a snippet of some code that uses it. (I apologize
> for the coding style, but it's trying to match another project.)
> 
> // ... a function that takes a cairo::Context &cr, and then:
> cr.SelectFontFace("sans");
> cr.SetFontSize(12.0);
> 
> cairo::TextExtents te;
> // center the title.
> cr.GetTextExtents(*title_, &te);
> cr.MoveTo(Point((cairo_width_ - te.width) / 2.0, -20));
> cr.ShowText(*title_);
> 
> On 9/19/05, Rui Pires <themidgard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm quite interested in cairoxx, as i'm a C++ fan.
> > It's sad that there are already bindings available for a bunch of other
> > languages and not for C++. It's true that in C++ you can use the C API
> > directly, but it's not the same thing. For me it just doesn't feel right
> > using it that way.
> >
> > Anyway, i've checked the mailing list archives didn't find out if this 
> is
> > being actively developed or if it is stopped. Also, at the time i write
> > this, the last CVS checkin seems to have been 16 months ago.
> >
> > If anyone's interested i'm willing to try writing a really thin set of
> > wrapper classes (mostly inline functions, to keep overhead at a 
> mininum).
> >
> >
> > Rui Pires.
> >
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