[sugar] Hippo Canvas

Gonzalo Odiard godiard at gmail.com
Thu Dec 20 13:16:50 EST 2007


Its planned adopt goocanvas or another canvas?

Gonzalo Odiard

2007/12/20, Benjamin M. Schwartz <bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu>:
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> Gerard J. Cerchio wrote:
> > Sorry to say that I am having a terrifically hard time trying to use the
> > hippo canvas.
>
> 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.
>
> You should only use hippocanvas if you know that what you are doing would
> be
> more difficult without it.
>
> For your case, I recommend plain Cairo instead.
>
> - --Ben
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