[AGG] First post

[Philippe L. <Ph...@GM...>]

Hello.

I just subscribed to this list, for reasons I will explain below.

I don't expect to make frequent interventions (I will lurk a lot) but I 
will probably read your messages with interest.

Actually, I discovered AGG quite some time ago (2 years). It was very 
promising, and probably already very usable, but I was quite 
surprised/disappointed to see the site didn't evolve.

There are/was only a few free/open source vector graphic libraries out 
there: libart of course, Tinic's Zodius 
(<http://sourceforge.net/projects/zodius/><http://www.bebits.com/app/2326>) 
which seems abandoned, and that's more or less all.

So that makes AGG even more precious :-)

Alas, due to lack of time and many various projects going on at variable 
states of completion (rarely beyond early design stage...), I still have 
to discover AGG in depth (read doc, study examples, do some 
experiements)... That's why I will mostly lurk...

Following again the link from GPC to AGG ("I wonder if there is anything 
new after so much time?"...), I was pleased to see an updated and 
greatly expanded site! I have now a lot of docs to read...


My interest in vector drawing is quite old, I started with Micrografx 
Designer, then I used Corel Draw! 3 to 6, and Illustrator on Mac. Didn't 
tried Xara yet, nor Freehand, nor Microsoft Expression 
<http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/default.asp?pg=home> (ex. 
Creature House/Fractal Design Expression). The later seems interesting, 
and currently you can get it for free...

There are very little free vector drawing tools for Windows (and no free 
TrueType font editors). Nearly until recently. There is the quite 
surprising Eve <http://www.goosee.com/>, the GTK-based Sodipodi and 
Inkscape, and that's mostly all... The later I won't use much, they 
crashed too easily with simple drawings... I probably forget some 
projects I had a look on (A GNU one? A Python-based one?).

I wish somebody started a pure native Windows (or based on a thin 
compatibility layer like SciTE), C++, AGG-based vector drawing program. 
I don't feel much to start one myself (althought I never discard the 
idea), but I am willing to help work on such project.

Windows because I only know this (no GTK/Qt/wxWidgets/etc.) and I prefer 
the stability and look of pure API applications. I don't know if 
Sodipodi and Inkspace are instable because of the GTK+ layer or because 
of their inner programming...
C++ (or C) because I don't know Java (too heavy to such application, 
anyway), nor Delphi, nor Python, etc.
AGG-based because I am impressed by the demos and Maxim assertions on 
the quality of his work :-)

OK, enough talk for now, I will fall in lurk mode now :-)

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Philippe Lhoste (Paris -- France)
Professional programmer and amateur artist
http://Phi.Lho.free.fr
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