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<refentry id="libgnomecanvas-2-3">

<refmeta><refentrytitle>&cmd;</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum>

<refmiscinfo class="date">31 Aug 2004</refmiscinfo>

<refmiscinfo class="sectdesc">&man3;</refmiscinfo>

<refmiscinfo class="software">&release;</refmiscinfo>

<refmiscinfo class="arch">generic</refmiscinfo>

<refmiscinfo class="copyright">&suncopy;</refmiscinfo>

</refmeta>

<indexterm><primary>&cmd;</primary></indexterm>

<indexterm><primary>GNOME Canvas API</primary></indexterm>

<refnamediv id="libgnomecanvas-2-3-name"><refname>&cmd;</refname>

<refpurpose>GNOME Canvas API</refpurpose>

</refnamediv>

<refsect1 id="libgnomecanvas-2-3-desc"><title>&desc-tt;</title>

<para>

The GNOME canvas is a high-level engine for creating structured graphics. The

programmer can insert graphical items such as lines, rectangles, and text into

the canvas, and refer to them later for further manipulation.

</para>

<para>

To access the API documentation, you must install the developer version of the

package.

</para>

</refsect1>

<refsect1 id="libgnomecanvas-2-3-file"><title>&file-tt;</title>

<para>

The following files are used by this library:

</para>

<variablelist termlength="wholeline">

<varlistentry>

<term><filename>/usr/lib/&cmd;.so</filename></term>

<listitem><para>

GNOME Canvas API shared library

</para></listitem></varlistentry>

<varlistentry>

<term><filename>/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libgnomecanvas</filename></term>

<listitem><para>

Location of developer documentation

</para></listitem></varlistentry>

</variablelist>

</refsect1>

<refsect1 id="libgnomecanvas-2-3-attr"><title>&attr-tt;</title>

<para>

See

<olink targetdocent="REFMAN5" localinfo="attributes-5">

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>attributes</refentrytitle>

<manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry></olink>

for descriptions of the following attributes:

</para>

<informaltable frame="all">

<tgroup cols="2" colsep="1" rowsep="1">

<colspec colname="COLSPEC0" colwidth="1*">

<colspec colname="COLSPEC1" colwidth="1*">

<thead>

<row>

<entry align="center" valign="middle">ATTRIBUTE TYPE</entry>

<entry align="center" valign="middle">ATTRIBUTE VALUE</entry>

</row>

</thead>

<tbody>

<row>

<entry><para>Availability</para></entry>

<entry><para>library/desktop/libgnomecanvas</para></entry>

</row>

<row>

<entry colname="COLSPEC0"><para>Interface stability</para></entry>

<entry colname="COLSPEC1"><para>Volatile</para></entry>

</row>

</tbody>

</tgroup>

</informaltable>

</refsect1>

<refsect1 id="libgnomecanvas-2-3-also"><title>&also-tt;</title>

<para>

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>libgnome-2</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>libgnomeui-2</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>attributes</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>gnome-interfaces</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>

</para>

</refsect1>

<refsect1 id="libgnomecanvas-2-3-note"><title>&note-tt;</title>

<para>

Written by Brian Cameron, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2003, 2004.

</para>

</refsect1>

</refentry>