NAME

GooCanvas2::CairoTypes - Bridge between GooCanvas2 and Cairo types

SYNOPSIS

use GooCanvas2;
use GooCanvas2::CairoTypes;
my $pattern = Cairo::SolidPattern->create_rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);
my $rect = GooCanvas2::CanvasRect->new(
        ...,
        'fill-pattern' => $pattern,  # fails without CairoTypes, just works with
);
# Sometimes (but not always, no idea why) this fails:
$rect->get('fill-pattern')->set_filter('linear);
# Here's the solution:
GooCanvas2::CairoTypes::cairoize_pattern($rect->get('fill-pattern'))
        ->set_filter('linear);

DESCRIPTION

There is an issue in the interaction between GooCanvas, GObject Introspection, Cairo, and their Perl bindings, which causes some functionality to be unusable from Perl side. This is better described here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64625955/cairosolidpattern-is-not-of-type-goocanvas2cairopattern, and there was an attempt https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/goocanvas/-/merge_requests/9 to fix it upstream. Until it's fixed, this can serve as a workaround for it.

Currently this module only "fixes" "Cairo::Pattern/GooCanvas2::CairoPattern" interop. For certain calls it just works if this module was included; for some other calls you need to explicitly convert the type.

If you have any idea how to fix those cases to not require such call, or need to bridge more types, pull requests https://github.com/DarthGandalf/GooCanvas2-CairoTypes are welcome!

AUTHOR

Alexey Sokolov, <sokolov@google.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2021 by Google

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.22.3 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.