[Gtk-sharp-list] Re: OnPaint method

[Sergio Rubio]

On Thursday 07 April 2005 01:09, Mike Kestner wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 00:38 +0200, Sergio Rubio wrote:
> > Having something like on OnPaint in Widget will help those comming from
> > the SWF world, and IMHO, it is an interesting alternative to Gnome.Canvas
> > (It is pretty similar to Java2D). BTW, does Gnome.Canvas work in windows?
>
> It is highly unlikely we will add a System.Drawing dependency to
> gtk-sharp.dll.  If we were going to do this, we wouldn't have added an
> entire assembly (gtk-dotnet.dll) to provide these types of bridges to
> the non-ecma parts of .Net, like System.Drawing.

Ah Ecma, I see...

> To my knowledge, libgnomecanvas is not ported to win32, so Gnome.Canvas
> and the rest of the Gnome namespace are not built on win32.

So what is the best thing to do (Multiplatform) when drawing 2D graphics and 
custom widgets? Gdk? Is Cairo going to be pushed as the best drawing API in 
Gtk#?

Thanks,
Rubio.