[cairo] Filling everything but the shape

[Ricky Wood]

I'm new to cairo and probably missing some obvious concept, please can someone enlighten me with this problem:

Basically, I have a surface with some shapes already drawn onto it.  I now want to paint every part of the surface a single colour except a circle, i.e. leave the contents of the surface, where the circle lies, undisturbed.

The approach I took was:

- create a mask
- paint the mask totally opaque
- fill a transparent arc on the mask
- set the colour on the source
- cairo_mask

I thought the source colour would be transferred to the destination, leaving the circle masked.

Where have I gone wrong, or is there a better approach?

TIA.


       
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