Re: Trying out cairo2

"Christophe Troestler [email protected] [ocaml_beginners]" <[email protected]> Mon, 20 Jul 2015 10:59:28 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lang.ocaml.beginners
Organization	University of Mons
Message-ID	<20150720.105928.383239684724933911.Christophe.Troestler@umons.ac.be>

On Sun, 19 Jul 2015 14:25:37 -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> 
> But insteaad of trying to figure out oasis (another huge lump to swallow before I get anything going, aind I'm really not sure if I need to understand this until I have a bigger project, or am preparing a package for distribution) I just used
> 
>    ocamlfind ocamlopt -o foom -package cairo2,lablgtk2,cairo2.lablgtk2 -linkpkg foo.ml
> 
> and then 
>    ./foom
> gave me a window with some coloured circles.

That's fine.  oasis is especially interesting for projects that you want to package.

> Do I understand correctly that there's no user interaction in this program?

No, that's not the purpose of Cairo.  For user interaction, you would need to embed it in, say, a Gtk canva and use Gtk for user interaction.

Best,
C.