[Haskell-cafe] Re: Why binding to existing widget toolkits doesn't make any sense

[Bryan O'Sullivan]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Antony Courtney
<antony.courtney at gmail.com>wrote:

> A 2-D vector graphics library such as Java2D ( or Quartz on OS/X or
> GDI+ on Windows ) supports things like computing tight bounding
> rectangles for arbitrary shapes, hit testing for determining whether a
> point is inside or outside a shape and constructive area geometry for
> shape compositing and clipping without dropping down to a raster
> representation.


These are the kinds of capabilities provided by Cairo, which is very
pleasant to use (PDF-style imaging model) and quite portable. There are
already Cairo bindings provided by gtk2hs, too.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/attachments/20090130/ed869c28/attachment.htm