[Gambas-devel] SVG support for GTK+

[Benoit Minisini]

On Saturday 16 September 2006 19:14, Daniel Campos wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I've created a component for gb.gtk, called gb.gtk.svg which uses
> librsvg to load SVG files.
>
> At this moment it implements all that librsvg can do:
>
> -> Loading a SVG file
> -> Get a Picture or an Image from it.
>
> In the future it will be expanded when librsvg really supports other
> features from its API:  extracting metadata, loading different layers
> from a SVG file and setting different DPIs for X and Y coordinates.
> These functions do nothing at this moment. When I also implement a
> Cairo component, they will be able to work together to manage these
> vectorial drawings.
>
> Due to all those plans, and the need of an additional library , I do
> not want to insert it in the current gb.gtk component as a "Drawing"
> class like the gb.qt one.
>
> And apart from that, I use only the Image and Picture interfaces from
> Gambas, so other components (currently I think they're gb.qt,
> gb.opengl, gb.sdl) can use it to get SVG Pictures and Images from a
> SVG file (of course gb.qt can do it with the Drawing class, but it
> works!)
>
> At this moment librsvg can only load files, not saving them from any
> possible source.
>
> The component is stable at this moment, no need to add Alpha or Beta
> warnings. I've used the 2.14.3 version of librsvg2, so It won't work
> with previous versions. Libsrvg uses cairo, pango and GTK+ internally.
>
> Release:
>
> http://gambas.gnulinex.org/gtk/gb.gtk.svg.1.0.0.tar.bz2
>
>
>
>
> Daniel
>

I can't compile it, I have only librsvg2 2.9.5...

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Benoit Minisini