Around 16 o'clock on Jul 16, "Matthew Allen" wrote: > I'm wondering whether there is a single pass method to draw text with a > background using Xft? Just flat color, nothing special. There is not currently such an API, but of course you could easily build one on top of the existing API if you like by allocating a temporary pixmap to build the composite image in. This is precisely what Xft would do internally as the X render extension doesn't provide this operation. By allocating only a temporary pixmap, you wouldn't introduce any permanant additional memory overhead. If you added this code to Xft, you might want to optimize the non-Render case to avoid the GetImage. -keith
