Hippo Canvas

[Gerard J. Cerchio]

Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote:
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> Gerard J. Cerchio wrote:
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>> Sorry to say that I am having a terrifically hard time trying to use the 
>> hippo canvas.
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> hippocanvas is sort of deprecated.  Initially, hippocanvas was to be the basic
> building block for all Activities, but it proved too immature to be used
> everywhere.  Instead activity developers are encouraged to use the standard GTK
> components.  However, hippocanvas does provide some features that are difficult
> or impossible with standard GTK, as used by Chat and a few other Sugar elements.
>  Therefore, it is included in the build.
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> You should only use hippocanvas if you know that what you are doing would be
> more difficult without it.
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> For your case, I recommend plain Cairo instead.
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> - --Ben
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So now marked in the Wiki...