CairoMakie

The Cairo Backend for Makie

Usage

To add CairoMakie to your environment, simply run the following in the REPL:

]add CairoMakie

If you are using CairoMakie and GLMakie together, you can use each backend's activate! function to switch between them.

Issues

Please file all issues in the Makie.jl, and mention CairoMakie in the issue text!

Limitations

As of now, CairoMakie only supports 2D scenes. It is also noticeably slower than GLMakie.

Using CairoMakie with Gtk.jl

You can render onto a GtkCanvas using Gtk, and use that as a display for your scenes.

using Gtk, CairoMakie, AbstractPlotting

canvas = @GtkCanvas()
window = GtkWindow(canvas, "Makie", 500, 500)

function drawonto(canvas, scene)
    @guarded draw(canvas) do _
       resize!(scene, Gtk.width(canvas), Gtk.height(canvas))
       screen = CairoMakie.CairoScreen(scene, Gtk.cairo_surface(canvas), getgc(canvas), nothing)
       CairoMakie.cairo_draw(screen, scene)
    end
end

scene = heatmap(rand(50, 50)) # or something

drawonto(canvas, scene)
show(canvas); # trigger rendering