[cairo] virtual surfaces and composition

[Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult]

On 09.12.2015 23:12, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Dec 2015 00:53:17 +0300, LRN wrote:
> 
>> It sounds more like some kind of scene graph thing? I don't think
>> cairo has that
> 
> Script devices?
> 

Actually, that was also my imagination:

* individual widgets are rendered to some virtual surfaces
* the recorded information is stored in some scene-graph
  (as some kind of vector images)
* moving, zooming, etc, is just done via scene graph
  manipulations

--mtx

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