[cairo-commit] pycairo NOTES,NONE,1.1

[Steve Chaplin]

Committed by: stevech1097

Update of /cvs/cairo/pycairo
In directory gabe:/tmp/cvs-serv9185

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	NOTES 
Log Message:
SC 15/11/2004

--- NEW FILE: NOTES ---
Some interesting points about these bindings:

* provides an OO interface to Cairo, using Python 2.2 new style classes.

* treat cairo.Matrix objects as immutable.  The wrappers for things like
cairo_matrix_invert() return a new object, leaving the existing matrix
unchanged.

* cairo_status() is called to check the status of cairo_t operations, and
raise exceptions as appropriate.

* Can be used as a base for other Python extensions.  Will be important when
wrapping other libraries that depend on cairo

* Includes a simple extension with functions for creating cairo.Surface
objects from GdkWindows or GdkPixbufs.  This makes it possible to use the
bindings with PyGTK.