Cairo Graphics: Getting Started
Next week I'll be redoing some of the Cairo screencasts - they are all outdated, simply due to the fact that you can load cairo much more easily now:
On Windows and OS X, you'll have the shared libraries installed as well (assuming you picked those when you ran the installer. If you didn't, re-run the installer and do so). For Linux or Unix platforms, you'll have to get Cairo installed yourself.
Once you have it loaded, try this as a simple "Is Cairo Working" test:
| win component | win := ApplicationWindow new. win component: (VisualBlock block: [:gc :box | gc newCairoContextWhile: [:cr | cr source: ColorValue red; rectangle: (box insetBy: 20); fillPreserve; source: ColorValue blue; strokeWidth: 20; stroke]]). win open.
If it worked, you should get this (make the window bigger to see it:
