Re: [ANN] LuaCairo updated

[Hakki Dogusan <dogusanh@...>]

Hi,

(Sorry, I'm late..)

Philippe Lhoste wrote:
> On 06/12/2007 13:39, Hakki Dogusan wrote:
> > - Win32 updated to Cairo-1.4.12
> > - Documentation added (based on cairo.h)
> >
> > http://www.dogusan.net/dogusanh/download.html#luacairo
>
> Thanks. Some feedback:

I appreciate, thank you!

> - Perhaps explain a bit more what to find in the "Lua module" vs. 
> "Snippets application". And that the later contains everything needed.

I can't write documentation even in my mother language :( Could you 
write what to say there ::)

> - I like to be able to quickly see the version of an exe or dll file by 
> looking at its properties (Version tab in XP). Alas, lot of portable 
> open source programs omit this. It is just a resource file to add to the 
> build. I made that for my (outdated now) Lua binaries.
> Of course, not a requirement, just a suggestion.

Done.

> - Obviously your examples cannot be run from their current place as 
> their relative path to the data (and required modules) is changed now. 
> Perhaps a little README file can explain that? Quite obvious for a 
> programmer, but might allow a quick run.

Done (still no README :(). Examples modified, added example.bat/.sh, 
snippets.bat/.sh.

> - Documentation looks a bit dry at first sight, but obviously it targets 
> people knowing Cairo, or at least knowing they must look up Cairo doc 
> and tutorials, so it is OK.
> I appreciate the parallel of C and Lua functions.

While translating snippets to Lua, I always was finding myself looking 
lcairo source how I did binding :) Hopefully this document will help.

> I spotted a little inconsistency: I wondered what the [WARN] flag was 
> for, as it isn't in the "Color conventions" section, then I saw that 
> "Lua usage is different from C: different" line refers to nothing... I 
> suppose you changed that either way and stopped in mid-air! ;)

Updated. Is it better now?

> Now, I still have to play with that.

Since I'm in -slooooow- learning stage, I thought, there should be a 
tool to show code effect in real time.. So I wrote mine; named CairoPad 
8) ANN is coming next.


> Would you be interested by any (interesting) test code I might make?

Of course! I still didn't write any cairo code myself! With CairoPad, 
sharing code will be easier (all code saved in a sqlite database).


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Regards,
Hakki Dogusan