[cairo] Code compiled under MinGW with no error ans warring does not work.

Sun Jul 14 07:38:53 PDT 2013

2013/7/14 Sergey K. <bottom at mail.ru>

> Dear Olaf,
> thank you for your kind response!  Yes, IMHO the problem is not in the
> SSE2 support. It must be simpler, I suppose. Because I'm not a programmer
> as it is, I'm just a physicist using a plain C and a very beginner in cairo
> and GTK. So everything indicated that I failed to find a right tutorial
> :-))). I'll return to this idea below. What is more, serious problems  (I
> still trust gcc and therefore hope so) must invoke any compiler or run-time
> error message. However in my case - and this is quite strange -  there is
> no any error or even warning from a compiler and the executable opening the
> main window only stops then in total silence too. So I have no string to
> pull in order to unravel the whole ball. Using GDB in ad-hoc manner in a
> hope to find at least something interesting is the only way to go. But it
> is a bit boring, you know :)
>
> Following this way I have found that, as expected, there is simply no
> 'draw' event. And this is turned to be normally for GTK2 as it has
> 'expose_event' only.  I found out it in [1]. In addition user *zerohour *posted in
> [1] on Mon Jun 11, 2012 6:52 am: "Drawing with Cairo using GTK3 is
> significantly different than with GTK2.x. The GDK drawing API has been
> removed. So most of the tutorials on the net will not work with GTK3."
> Well, I during these days I have learned how much water has flown under the
> bridge since then. I mean many tutorials have been redrawn to date and are
> compliant now with GTK3, where the GDK drawing API is really eliminated and
> almost totally replaced with cairo API. Code from www.zetcode.com which
> was cited in the previous message is an example. I got in contact with Jan
> Bodner, the author of the code and he confirmed that it was fully rewritten
> (recently) to be compliant with GTK3. I wonder why he was rewriting instead
> of adding. Another problem that adds oil to the fire is that there are a
> lot of resources on the Internet without an explicit declaration of GTK+
> version used. Just GTK+ code with no regard to its compatibility. So it
> consumes quite long time to check if they work under GTK 2.0.  Taking into
> account these facts (significant changes in GTK and a kind of mishmash in
> the Internet tutorials) it looks that the solution of my simple problem
> will take fortune without a clever hint from experts in the field. That is
> why I'm here.
>
> Talking in get-to-the-point terms:
>
> I use the standard latest GTK+ bindings for Win32 [3]. It is of version
> 2.24.10 and depended on cairo 1.10.2.  You see, the version is too close to
> 2.22 (mentioned below as a turning point of GTK+ Drawing API)  to be
> absolutely sure, yet 'higher than' to save the hope that code with cairo
> operators (instead of their wraps like gdk_draw_line(), gdk_draw_point(),
> etc. described in [4]) will work. As I see it, 2.24 is a kind of
> transitional version that has GDK Drawing API and 'new GTK3-cairo' (to say
> so) API. So one can use both deprecated GDK operators and new cairo
> operators with it . The former was totally eliminated from GDK3 then.
>
> I didn't try older versions because they, obviously, provide less hope of
> using cairo operators instead of their GDK wraps. (I see that 'draw'-event
> was replaced with 'expose_event' (or returned - I'm not sure, but it might
> have been in GTK1.2) sometime after version 2.22 of GDK [2] and from the
> same version the support of the 'native cairo notation' instead of GDK
> wraps begins.)
>
> And I didn't try newer libraries as they are not ported to Win32, as far
> as I know, and so they are not suitable for cross-platform programming.
>
> What did I try? I have replaced 'draw' event with 'expose_event' in the
> cited code from zetacode.com, so the cairo operators became accessible in
> the process flow (initially and after deleting or position-size changes of
> overlapping windows). But they (cairo operators are in the call-back
> function fro 'expose_event') do not work anyway.
>
> I started using  deprecated GDK wraps [4] and everything went without
> saying. But the question is still on the scene. How can I get over to
> recommended operators instead of deprecated GDK wraps working within GTK
> 2.24.10 and cairo 1.10.2 (and GDK-PIXBUF 2.24.0)? I suppose there must be a
> fine thing like two-three lines of code or data types definitions that must
> be added to the code compliant with GTK3 to make it workable with
> GTK2.24... I try to take the code from www.zetcode.com as a start point.
> It is fully adapted to GTK3. So I'm looking for ideas (or a code snippet)
> on how to run it with a crossplatform library (As I wrote I suppose it is
> GTK 2.24.10). But I failed to find them so far and therefore went back to a
> deprecated but well documented GTK2 practice implying the use of GDK
> operators [4].
>
> As far as C language is concerned, I think that it is a good option for us
> because we are developing an application for a small mobile radar keeping
> in mind an embedded controllers (with a usual lack of resources). Now we
> use notebooks been used for these purposes. Therefore an efficient
> application is welcomed.  I know nothing from Pyton and so can't evaluate
> the efficacy of its code. The problem which compels us to think about a
> crossplatform application is that our ADC (analog to digital convertor)
> supplier developed a driver for Win32 only (more precise their driver for
> Linux doesn't work) and therefore we should take into account the
> possibility of working on Win32 if we failed to develop our own driver for
> Linux in the future. I the latter have been accomplished to date, no one
> would have think about Windows :)
>
> Kind regards,
> Sergey Kolomiets,
> Researcher, MIPT, Dolgoprudniy of Moscow region.
>
>
> 1. http:// <http://www.gtk.org/download/win32.php>
> www.gtkforums.com/./viewtopic.php?p=195286#p195286
> 2.
> https://developer.gnome.org/gdk/unstable/gdk-Drawing-Primitives.html#gdk-draw-line(you can use the word 'stable' instead of 'unstable' in this URL with the
> same result)
> 3. http://www.gtk.org/download/win32.php
> 4. https://developer.gnome.org/gdk/unstable/gdk-Drawing-Primitives.html
>
>
> Since nobody else replied so far...
> My first thought was, that Pixman was compiled for SSE2-only-mode
> (without support for MMX), since that was, where I encountered
> problems on some older hardware (CPUs, which didn't support SSE2) -
> but that was then easily fixed by enabling MMX in the Pixman-compile.
>
> But then, the CPU on your older Dell-Notebook does support SSE2 AFAIK.
>
> Since you run on Windows - not sure what cairo-version you use
> in conjunction with GTK2... meaning, whether this is the "official
> binaries, all belonging together and downloaded from a single site"
> or if it is a kind of your own mix - with parts compiled yourself...
>
> Anyways (depending on some cairo-versions) there *were* some
> bugs in the binding to Win32-typed-Surfaces with regards to
> clipping, which in the meantime are solved as I see it - though
> not sure, what surfacetype a GTK2-application would apply whilst
> creating widget-surfaces and their internal bindings to GTK-windows.
> If it is "plain InMemory-ImageSurfaces" GTK is using against hWnds,
> then I don't see what could go wrong with some simple drawings -
> I'd have understood "missing Font-render-output", since this has
> a larger potential to fail due to some more dependencies in the
> GTK-stack - but "simple moveto, lineto demos"... <shrug>
>
> Did you tried downloading and installing other GTK2-packages for
> windows? A bit more recent - or alternatively a bit older ones -
> just to see if the problems are related to a certain release?
>
> Also not sure how important it is for you, to use GTK2 as the
> "cairo-provider" (so to say) - and if the C-language is a must on
> your end ... I mean, there's also cairo-bindings for Python or LUA
> (incl. download-packages for the win-platform), which you could try-out.
>
> Perhaps the cairo-wrappers those tools come with, produce "something
> visiblefor a change"... well, you could even use plain VBScript (*.vbs)
> in the meantime, to produce cairo-renderings or cairo-Widget-based Mini-
> Applications, if that is, what you planned to use cairo for...
>
> So, yeah - just poking a bit, if your problem is still there -
> or what you tried with regards to different GTK-versions - or with
> regards to "entirely different cairo-based frameworks/languages".
>
>
> Olaf
>
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Hi Sergey,

you don't have to use GDK drawing primitives under GTK2,
there are cairo compatibility functions [1] specifically for this case.

Eg., in an 'expose-event' callback for a widget you'd like to draw to,
you would call:

    cairo_t *cr = gdk_cairo_create(widget->window);
    /* ... Do your usual cairo drawing ... */
    cairo_destroy(cr);

and that's it! =)

Jonas

1. https://developer.gnome.org/gdk2/2.24/gdk2-Cairo-Interaction.html
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