RE: [DiaCanvas] No more cassowary.

[Arjan J. M. <A.J...@xi...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phlip [mailto:ppl...@ce...]
> Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 5:53 PM
> To: Arjan J. Molenaar; 'dia...@li...'
> Subject: Re: [DiaCanvas] No more cassowary.
> 
> 
> > I will check it it this weekend.
> 
> I'm a luddite! I don't want GTK 2! If humans were meant to 
> fly they'd have 
> been born with a propeller!
> 
> Can you write portable code between GTK 1 and 2? Or is GTK 2 
> easy to slip in 
> and it won't ruin my boo'ful desktop? I have to use this 
> 'puter for e-mails 
> and such, you know!

To use GTK-2 you need to download some stuff from the GNOME CVS repository. I recomment you start with checking out the 'vicious-build-scripts' module. This one contains some explanation and easy to use scripts for checking out and building the libraries. (don't worry, everything is installed on a separate place and everything you have will continue working).

Use the scripts as described in the documentation with vicous-build-scripts and everything will work pretty well. Of course you can run into some bugs. To build DiaCanvas2 you need at least those modules:
- glib
- atk
- pango
- gtk+
- gnome-common
- libgnomecanvas

I use the FreeType renderer of Pango, so you need some .ttf files on your system and have the etc/pango/pangorc file contain something like this:

[pangoft2]
FontPath = /usr/share/fonts/truetype

Regards,

Arjan