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<refentry id="goocanvas-overview">
  <refmeta>
    <refentrytitle>Overview</refentrytitle>
    <manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
    <refmiscinfo>GOOCANVAS Library</refmiscinfo>
  </refmeta>

  <refnamediv>
    <refname>Overview</refname>
    <refpurpose>a quick tour of GooCanvas.</refpurpose>
  </refnamediv>

  <refsect1 id="features">
    <title>Features</title>
    <itemizedlist>
    <listitem><para>
      Optional model/view split.
    </para></listitem><listitem><para>
      Uses interfaces for items and views.
    </para></listitem><listitem><para>
      Basic items - rect/ellipse/polyline/text/image/grid/group.
    </para></listitem><listitem><para>
      Path item, using SVG path specification strings.
    </para></listitem><listitem><para>
      Table item for layout of other items (similar to the GtkTable widget).
      (This also supports items whose requested height changes according to
      their allocated width, such as text items.)
    </para></listitem><listitem><para>
      Embedded GTK+ widgets.
    </para></listitem><listitem><para>
      Layers/stacking order with raise/lower functions.
    </para></listitem><listitem><para>
      Cascading styles - line width/style/dashes, colors, fill patterns.
    </para></listitem><listitem><para>
      Affine transformations for all items - rotations/scales/skews.
    </para></listitem><listitem><para>
      Event handling - button/motion events, "pointer-events" property like SVG.
    </para></listitem><listitem><para>
      Grabs - support for pointer and keyboard grabs.
    </para></listitem><listitem><para>
      Keyboard focus traversal.
    </para></listitem><listitem><para>
      Accessibility (item title and description properties and hierarchy stuff).
    </para></listitem><listitem><para>
      Printing (output to a given cairo_t).
    </para></listitem><listitem><para>
      Scrolling.
    </para></listitem><listitem><para>
      Zooming.
    </para></listitem><listitem><para>
      Static items that don't move as the canvas is scrolled or zoomed.
    </para></listitem><listitem><para>
      Item visibility setting - on/off/above zoom threshold.
    </para></listitem><listitem><para>
      Simple animation.
    </para></listitem><listitem><para>
      Scalable - support for thousands of items over a large canvas area.
    </para></listitem><listitem><para>
      Support for different units - pixels/points/inches/millimeters.
    </para></listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

  </refsect1>
</refentry>