[cairo] cairomm & gtkmm for windows

[Frank Spies]

hi jonathon,

thanks for the answer !!
that helped get me past my compile
problem

any idea when gtkmm 2.9.x will come ?
also, do i need 2.9 ? or 2.10 ? not sure from your email below
can i download the sources for either already ?

thanks again !
frank


Jonathon Jongsma wrote:
> On 3/12/06, Frank Spies <morpheus at squirrely.net> wrote:
>   
>>  hi all,
>>
>>  i've downloaded the gtkmm dev installer for ms windows from here:
>>
>>  http://www.pcpm.ucl.ac.be/~gustin/win32_ports/
>>
>>  and installed the 2.8.3 version
>>  it also downloaded and installed the gtk dev package
>>
>>  it all works fairly well (after some tweaking) until i try to use cairomm
>>  i had to download that separately from the cairomm site but now it can not
>> find:
>>
>>  Gdk::Window::create_cairo_context()
>>     
>
> cairomm is not integrated with gtkmm until the 2.9.x series even
> though GTK+ uses cairo as of 2.8.x.  Until the new gtkmm series is
> released, you'll have to get a cairo context by using the underlying
> GTK+/GDK functions.  For example, you'll need to do something like
> this (assuming you have cairomm installed):
>
> Glib::RefPtr<Gdk::Window> win = get_window();
> Cairo::RefPtr<Cairo::Context> cr(
>     new Cairo::Context(gdk_cairo_create(win->gobj()), true));
>
> >From here on, you can use cr just as if you had called the missing
> gtkmm function Gdk::Window::create_cairo_context().  In other words,
> this is the only place you'll need to resort to a workaround until
> gtkmm 2.10 comes out.
>
> Jonner
>
>   
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