On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 06:18:38AM -0700, pixel fairy wrote: > ive been using opengl for most graphics stuff, but now i want to write a > simple app (gui for scarse, a scanner calibrater) and i think opengl is > overkill here. > > whats the simplest method of displaying an image with some interface > elements over it, in this case a loaded tiff (probably using tifflib) > with lines (of inverse color perhaps) that can be moved. Use gtk and gdk-pixbuf. Gtk is an X (or Win32, or BeOS) toolkit, and gdk-pixbuf is a GNOME library (though it theoretically doesn't depend on GNOME) to load arbitary image formats. Ian