Last October I added a toolbar for Chaco plots. It was functional, but it wasn’t very pretty. I decided to rewrite it from scratch, with emphasis on improving the appearance and improving the auto-hide feature.
The new toolbar also employs a new feature to Enable: gradients! Gradient support is still a work in progress, but improving daily.
A few months ago Bryan Cole added the start of a Cairo based backend for Kiva. I’ve been fighting with Agg for several SVG related features and thought Cairo might be a good subsitute for rendering SVG’s. For most of our rendering needs, Cairo is about 4x slower than Agg, so its not a good general replacement, but for the SVG editor it might be okay. I took the initial work done, which only rendered to images, hacked it a bit, and go it into an Enable canvas. There is still a lot of work to be done, and this is the first time I’ve looked at Cairo at all, so if anyone wants to help out, please do. Anyway, without further ado, here is the SVG lion image:
If anyone knows how to get rid of the background rendering artifacts, please let me know.