[cairo] cairo/gdk + clipping

[Benjamin Otte]

On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 18:51 +1000, Andrew Cowie wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 15:49 +0200, Benjamin Otte wrote:
> > So if you render everything with Cairo, what you usually want to for
> > creating your Cairo context is run code like this:
> > 
> > cr = gdk_cairo_create (event->window);
> > gdk_cairo_region (cr, event->region);
> > cairo_clip (cr);
> > 
> > Then you end up with a region that is properly clipped...
> 
> I thought GdkRegion was deprecated?
> 
It is, but gdk_cairo_region() isn't. It's one of GDK's utility functions
that has no equivalent in cairo. The positive side effect is that this
code compiles fine in GTK2 and GTK 3.

Benjamin