[cairo] Re: Goocanvas: absolute-position animation and "update" confusion

[Carl Worth]

On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 12:37:31 +0000, Damon Chaplin wrote:
> Yes, it is a bit confusing. Though I don't really think items should
> change their own coordinate space. If you have the item itself and
> higher-level/application code both changing the item's transformation
> matrix it could get even more confusing.

I'd be interested in seeing that documentation describing how you
envision this working. In my application, I do have higher-level code
working to place the items, but it expects to allow the object to move
itself with object-oriented-like functions such as:

	object_move_to (object, x, y);

	object_glide_to (object, x, y);

I've got that working really nicely now, (it definitely helps to know
that animate takes absolute values---which is what I wanted
anyway). I implemented this by getting rid of any private x,y values
like the original demo-item had. Then I call canvas_item_set_transform
in my move_to and canvas_item_animate in glide_to.

That's working great for me now, but I can see it definitely being a
problem if in the canvas hierarchy there were other things going on
inside the matrix besides the translation for this object's position,
(such as the translation of its parent as well).

Maybe all that I'm missing is a goo_canvas_item_set_position or so,
(something like canvas_item_translate but with an absolute position
instead of an offset).

> Though if we switch to interpolating the translation/scale/rotation
> separately, to get better animation, we might have to use relative
> values instead. Unless someone knows a way to calculate the current
> translation/scale/rotation from a transformation matrix.

Can't you just eliminate any interface for setting the matrix
directly? Then you could always compute the matrix from the
translation, rotation, and scale values you have available. It might
also help eliminate any "badness" like I might have in my program
above from directly changing the matrix.

-Carl
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