On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 10:15 +0800, Lazy Fox wrote: > I followed your advice and found that "Cairo" is a vector graphics > library. > I think the vector drawing action will cost more cpu, gpu or ram then > gdk_draw_* API. > But my target device is an embeded system with ARM9 cpu, and have not > gpu. > So I think the gdk_draw_* API is better of me and my device. > Am I right? no. cairo is not targetted exclusively at one drawing platform. worst case scenario: cairo makes exactly the same Xlib drawing calls that GDK would have. > And I found that the Cairo library had not be integrated into the GTK+ > 2.12. > I have to compile and intstall it into my embeded filesystem manually. > Am I right? sort of kind of wrong. It is true that Cairo is not part of GTK, but then neither is Glib, which GTK uses extensively. Same with Pango. _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
