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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>
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