[cairo] Drawing an arrow

[Jeremy Moles]

On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 16:27 +0000, necko necko wrote:
> A set of 2D coordinates needs be connected by lines, but some of these
> lines need be arrows;
> meaning, the sequence
> 
>     cairo_move_to (cr, A.x, A.y);
>     cairo_line_to (cr, B.x, B.y);
> 
> that draws a line from A to B, needs to be replaced with an arrow from
> A to B.
> Any help on how to achieve this is highly welcome.
> Thanks

It turns out, Behdad has already provided some code that does something
very similar to this! I include the code in Cairocks, the function is
called "map_path_onto" and I got it from some of his code... somewhere.

Please see the attached image for a demonstration. I only use a simple
arc as the path, but you could just as well use anything.

Weee! :)

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