Re: [Haskell-cafe] Drawing an existing image into a cairo surface?

Bulat Ziganshin wrote:

afair, Render is a super-IO monad so you can just lift any IO operation to Render:

x <- liftIO$ imageSurfaceCreateFromPNG file

You are indeed correct. I feel really silly now, using unsafePerformIO in the IO monad. D'oh! Thank you very much! Rafal Kolanski.