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