[Lazarus] Cairo library usage

Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.lists at gmail.com
Fri May 16 12:10:29 CEST 2008


Ales Katona wrote:
> Not from my head, just googled out stuff:
> 
> GTK+ <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTK%2B>, starting in 2005 with 
> version 2.8, uses Cairo to render the majority of its widgets 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widget_%28computing%29>.
> 

Thanks for pointing me to wikipedia. I found the following page listed 
below. It's an informative page that helped explain Cairo to me. It's 
seems my comparison with SDL, AggPas etc was spot on. In summary, Cairo 
is a platform neutral API to 2D graphics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_%28graphics%29


Regards,
   - Graeme -


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