So someone on irc (bmz from #etk) mentioned he wanted to do some drawings using the EFL and would like to be able to draw shapes and curves onto Etk widgets. After a couple of hours of tinkering about, I created the Etk_Cairo widget. This widget allows you to creae a “surface” on which you can use Cairo to draw. A short example would be like this.

static void _etk_cairo_test_redraw_required_cb(Etk_Object *object, void *data) { Etk_Widget *cairo; cairo_t *cr; int w, h;

if (!(cairo = ETK_WIDGET(object))) return;

etk_widget_geometry_get(cairo, NULL, NULL, &w, &h); cr = etk_cairo_get(ETK_CAIRO(cairo)); _etk_cairo_test_draw(cr, 0, 0, w, h); }

int main(int argc, char **argv) { Etk_Widget *window; Etk_Widget *cairo; Etk_Widget *frame;

etk_init(&argc, &argv);

window = etk_window_new(); etk_window_title_set(ETK_WINDOW(window), “Etk-Cairo Test”);

cairo = etk_cairo_new(WIDTH, HEIGHT); etk_signal_connect(“redraw-required”, ETK_OBJECT(cairo), ETK_CALLBACK(_etk_cairo_test_redraw_required_cb), NULL);

frame = etk_frame_new(“Cairo Drawing”); etk_container_add(ETK_CONTAINER(frame), cairo);

etk_container_add(ETK_CONTAINER(window), frame); etk_window_resize(ETK_WINDOW(window), WIDTH, HEIGHT); etk_widget_show_all(window);

etk_main(); etk_shutdown();

return 0; }

In this example, the _etk_cairo_test_draw function does all the cairo stuff and can result in something like this or this.