Re: [ANN] Lua Cairo binding -updated-

[Hakki Dogusan <dogusanh@...>]

Hi,

(Sorry for late reply)

Chris wrote:
> A while ago I started a project like this.

Now there are three of us :)
I did a Google search before writing mine, but found none?
To my surprise there is also a project at 
http://luaforge.net/projects/luacairo/ by John Pitney; I learned about 
it with a private mail from him.

> The goal was a highly
> efficient hand generated full Cairo binding for Lua that was portable
> between Linux, OS X, and Windows.  Since Cairo is such a low-level API
> I wanted something with maximum performance.
>
> I got too busy to finish it but I got pretty far and you may find the
> source helpful.  I just put it up here (at the top of the page):
> http://imago.functionalfuture.com/

Thanks for the link. You already did gc methods which mine is still 
doesn't have.

We need somebody to collect our works to make a real binding ;)


> Eventually I wanted to write a SVG API entirely in Lua.  I know Cairo
> has a SVG library but I wanted something with more power and where it
> was easier to access the internals of the SVG structure.  For example,
> it would be nice to be able to create a SVG that used Lua as the
> scripting language rather than Javascript.

I did some svg parsing to show butterfly, lion, and tiger samples; they 
are in snippets example (http://www.dogusan.net/dogusanh/download).

ps. I added a helper method CreateContext(drawable) to luacairo. It 
expects "HDC" in win32, "GdkDrawable *" in linux. And added an 
get_drawable method to wxLua to return needed drawable. Now, Snippets 
runs in Ubuntu :)


> CR

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Regards,
Hakki Dogusan