Hi Hugo, This is what I wanted. A cocoa app including a custom view powered by cairo. I'm gonna try it very soon:) Thank you very much! Cheers, P <div>On 6/21/07, Hugo Vincent <<a href="mailto:hugo.vincent@gmail.com">hugo.vincent@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Here is a simple example I put together when I went through this exact painful process a couple of months back. I haven't tested it for a while, but it seems to still run and might be of use still. Also, this uses Cairomm, but you should be able to figure it out the minor changes in API to change it from Cairomm to plain Cairo. Cheers, Hugo Vincent. ----------------------------------------------------------- testview.h: ----------------------------------------------------------- #import <Cocoa/Cocoa.h> // Put one of these views into your layout in Interface Builder. @interface TestView : NSView {         // nothing needed here } @end ----------------------------------------------------------- testview.m ----------------------------------------------------------- #include <cairomm/cairomm.h> #include <cairomm/quartz_surface.h> #ifndef CAIRO_HAS_QUARTZ_SURFACE #error Need to build Cairo with Quartz support (version 1.4.0 or higher) #endif @implementation TestView - (id)initWithFrame:(NSRect)frameRect {         if ((self = [super initWithFrame:frameRect]) != nil)         {                 // nothing needed here         }         return self; } - (BOOL)isOpaque {         return NO; } - (void)drawRect:(NSRect)rect {         // Get the size of this NSView         NSRect bounds = [self bounds];         int width = bounds.size.width;         int height = bounds.size.height;         // Get CoreGraphcis context reference         CGContextRef ctx = (CGContextRef)[[NSGraphicsContext currentContext] graphicsPort];         // Make the CGContext coordinate system sane, as expected by Cairo         CGContextTranslateCTM (ctx, 0.0, height);         CGContextScaleCTM (ctx, 1.0, -1.0);         // Create the Cairo surface and context         Cairo::RefPtr<Cairo::QuartzSurface> surface = Cairo::QuartzSurface::create(ctx, width, height);         Cairo::RefPtr<Cairo::Context> cr = Cairo::Context::create(surface);         // Cairo-Quartz fallback surfaces don't work properly, so we need to create a temp. surface like this:         cr->push_group();         //---------- Drawing stuff (put your code in here) -------------------------------         // Draw a radial gradient (copied and pasted, more or less, from <a href="http://cairographics.org/samples/gradient.html">http://cairographics.org/samples/gradient.html</a>)         cr->scale(width,height);         Cairo::RefPtr<Cairo::RadialGradient> grad2 = Cairo::RadialGradient::create( 0.45, 0.4, 0.1, 0.4, 0.4, 0.5);         grad2->add_color_stop_rgba(0, 1,0,0, 1);         grad2->add_color_stop_rgba(1, 0,1,0, 1);         cr->set_source(grad2);         cairo_arc (cr, 0.5, 0.5, 0.3, 0, 2 * M_PI);         cr->fill();         //--------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------         // Finally, paint the temporary surface we made         cr->pop_group_to_source();         cr->paint(); } @end On 21/06/2007, at 7:00 AM, <a href="mailto:cairo-request@cairographics.org">cairo-request@cairographics.org</a> wrote: > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:52:51 +0200 > From: " Ipacs P?ter " <<a href="mailto:peter@ipacs.hu">peter@ipacs.hu</a>> > Subject: [cairo] [cairo osx] OS X example > To: <a href="mailto:cairo@cairographics.org">cairo@cairographics.org </a> > Message-ID: >       <<a href="mailto:6a86db250706200652m24dd6b9di17a881912402da62@mail.gmail.com">6a86db250706200652m24dd6b9di17a881912402da62@mail.gmail.com</a>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hi there, > > I'm quite new to cairo so please excuse me if I ask obvious > questions:) > > I'm trying to build the quartz example from the CVS ( > <a href="http://webcvs.cairographics.org/cairo-demo/quartz/"> http://webcvs.cairographics.org/cairo-demo/quartz/</a>) but it fails. > This is what I get: > cc -g -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing- > declarations > -Wredundant-decls `pkg-config --cflags cairo`   -c -o main.o main.c > main.c: In function 'TestWindowEventHandler': > main.c:65: error: incompatible type for argument 1 of > 'cairo_quartz_surface_create' > main.c: In function 'RedrawTimerCallback': > main.c:188: warning: 'SetRect' is deprecated (declared at > /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Frameworks/ > QD.framework/Headers/Quickdraw.h:2401) > main.c: In function 'CreateTestWindow': > main.c:205: warning: 'SetRect' is deprecated (declared at > /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Frameworks/ > QD.framework/Headers/Quickdraw.h:2401) > make: *** [main.o ] Error 1 > > What do you think about it? > > Another question: > Are there any OS X examples around that can be used out-of-the-box? > I mean > examples that does not require hundreds of dependencies and can be > compiled > by a simple 'make' or something. > > Cheers, > Peter _______________________________________________ cairo mailing list <a href="mailto:cairo@cairographics.org"> cairo@cairographics.org</a> <a href="http://cairographics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cairo">http://cairographics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cairo</a> </blockquote></div> -- Peter Ipacs Senior Business Analyst E-mail: <a href="mailto:peter@ipacs.hu">peter@ipacs.hu</a> Phone: (+36)20/483-4229 MSN: <a href="mailto:peter@ipacs.hu">peter@ipacs.hu</a> ICQ: 131065782 Skype: peteripacs