From:	FH.Spam@free.fr	Date:	Wed Sep 17 04:11:00 2008
Subject:	Re: Re: Canvas widget or similar solution to let user build diagrams

Elizabeth M Smith a écrit :
> FH.Spam@free.fr wrote:
>   
>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> I have been toying around with PHP-GTK for the past few days and have
>> been pleasantly surprised at the possibilities offered. Being able to
>> use (and re-use) PHP for GUI apps is for me a big breakthrough against
>> bulkier Java and C++.
>>
>> I am looking for a specific widget or behaviour though, and have not
>> been able to find explicit documentation relating to it.
>> The widget in question is what seems to be called a 'canvas' : an area
>> on the graphic interface where objects (represented by images) can be
>> laid by the user, moved around, linked, accessed, deleted etc. so as to
>> allow drawing schemes, diagrams, flows etc.
>> Throughout my searches I have seen mentions of GnomeCanvas, but nothing
>> in PHP-GTK.
>> Does such a widget exist ? Or can this result be achieved using other
>> methods ? I have tried the DrawingArea widget but have found myself
>> facing a lack of documentation or tutorials to achieve my goals.
>>
>> Thank you for your advice,
>>
>> François
>>     
>
>
> Hmmm, you might want to wait until the google summer of code is over, we
> have a bunch of new functionality coming for the drawingarea widget that
> will let you draw on it with cairo, which makes it really quite
> powerful.  In addition there are stand alone widgets like gnomecanvas
> that could be wrapped into a php-gtk extension and used for your
> program.  But right now there is no such functionality.  If you know a
> little C the php-gtk devs could use some help ;)
>
> Thanks,
> Elizabeth
>
>   
Hi Elizabeth (and everybody)

Hope the summer was great ;o)
Any news on the 'canvas' front ?
Thanks in advance,

François