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diff --git a/FL/Fl_Device.H b/FL/Fl_Device.H index 9162d13b1..5378293f3 100644 --- a/FL/Fl_Device.H +++ b/FL/Fl_Device.H @@ -51,6 +51,17 @@ class Fl_Widget; </ol> For back-compatibility, it is also possible to use the Fl_Surface_Device::set_current() member function to change the current drawing surface, once to the new surface, once to the previous one. + + Class Fl_Surface_Device can also be derived to define new kinds of graphical output + usable with FLTK drawing functions. + An example would be to draw to an SVG file. This would require to create a new class, + say SVG_Surface, derived from class Fl_Surface_Device, and another new class, + say SVG_Graphics_Driver, derived from class Fl_Graphics_Driver. + Class SVG_Graphics_Driver should implement all virtual methods of the Fl_Graphics_Driver class + to support all FLTK drawing functions and have them draw into SVG files. Alternatively, + class SVG_Graphics_Driver could implement only some virtual methods, and only part of + the FLTK drawing API would be usable when drawing to SVG files + (see examples/SVG_File_Surface.cxx for a small, working implementation of this procedure). */ class FL_EXPORT Fl_Surface_Device { /** The graphics driver in use by this surface. */ |