Gnome::Cairo Reference

The Cairo modules are created because of the need to get to the native objects whithin the rest of the Gnome packages. I would otherwise have used the package written by Timo. When you only have to draw an image and save it to disk, the modules of Timo might be a better solution. If you want to have drawings in your widgets, the Gnome::Cairo package is better.

The modules are all generated from the C source code and the documentation refers specifically to operations in C. Most of it is converted on the fly into Raku types or Raku native types. Sometimes, however, there is a mention of an operation like for instance, referencing or un-referencing objects. Those parts must be investigated still to see what the impact exactly is in Raku.

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• Toplevel classes are classes who inherit directly from Gnome::N::TopLevelClassSupport. Examples of such classes are Gnome::Cairo and Gnome::Cairo::Surface.
• Object classes are classes which inherit indirectly from Gnome::GObject::TopLevelClassSupport. An example is Gnome::Cairo::ImageSurface inheriting from Gnome::Cairo::Surface.
• Standalone classes are classes which do not inherit from other classes. Most of the time they even do not have a native object to work with. An example is Gnome::Glib::Quark.