[cairo] New to cairo, some questions

[Simon Lipp]

Hello,

I’m trying to learn cairo, and there’s some thinks I don’t quite
understand. First, let’s begin with this simple program :

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/8600647

It is a simple animation where an arc rotates around the center. Now my
questions are :

 * If I move cairo_create() and cairo_destroy() out of the loop, the
 result is still the same. However, most cairo examples on the web (like
 http://en.literateprograms.org/Hello_World_%28C,_Cairo%29) puts these
 call outside the loop. Why ? What’s the difference ?

 * Now if I just move cairo_paint() (and the first cairo_set_source_rgba
 call) outside the loop, I expect the result to be an animation of a
 circle being drawn. But that’s not what I get : I get no animation
 at all. Why ?

 * The same programe using EGL
   (https://gist.github.com/anonymous/8600771) instead of plain X
   surface doesn't draw anything. What am I doing wrong ?

Cheers