[cairo] Help the struggling newby!

[Maarten Bosmans]

Hi Andrew,

I doubt anyone on this list has any experience with Visual Basic using Cairo.

So what exactly are your problems? If you can show us some code and
describe what you are trying to achieve, we can probably suggest to
you how to use cairo to achieve your goal.

That being said, how tied are you to VB6? Python is a really nice
language to develop apps quickly in and has good supported cairo
bindings. Another suggestion is to develop a .NET app in
VisualBasic.NET and use the Mono.Cairo bindings from the Mono project.

Maarten


2011/8/14 Andrew Ellis <andrewjellis at hotmail.com>:
> Hello all.
> I've joined this group in the hope that someone might give me some pointers
> to some documentation.  I'm developing a VB6 application, and need some
> better graphics capabilities...
> I was persuaded to buy into the idea of using Cairo by someone in one of the
> VB6 groups.  Someone named Olaf Schmidt.  He's produced a Cairo wrapper
> (dhcairo.dll) and several VB6 tutorial projects.  I've tried experimenting
> with the tutorials - altering lines of code to see what the new effect is,
> for example - but I don't understand why the thing behaves the way it does.
>  I don't have any fit-for-purpose documentation, specifically to tell me (1)
> what is available for my application to use, (2) in what order they should
> be called, and (3) what the various parameters mean.  His commentary is not
> very helpful - German translated into English, and not very well.  I can't
> make head or tail of it!
> I haven't been able to get a lot of support from Olaf, and this problem has
> been waiting for a solution for over a year.  I'm not vastly experienced in
> graphics work, as I said, I just need something better than the standard
> graphics calls in VB6.
> If you've used dhCairo, perhaps you know of some docs I can look at?
> Andy
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