Havoc Pennington, I see ur mail id in mailing list. I want a small help in gtk. The problem is i cand draw that image with the following code #include <gtk/gtk.h> void close_application( GtkWidget *widget, GdkEvent *event, gpointer data ) { gtk_main_quit(); } int main (int argc, char *argv[]) { GtkWidget *window; GdkPixbuf *pixbuf; //GdkColormap *colormap; gtk_init (&argc, &argv); //colormap = gdk_colormap_get_system(); window = gtk_window_new( GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL); //gdk_drawable_set_colormap(window->window, colormap); gtk_signal_connect (GTK_OBJECT (window), "delete_event", GTK_SIGNAL_FUNC (close_application), NULL); gtk_widget_show (window); pixbuf = gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file((gchar *) "mandir_n.png", NULL); gdk_draw_pixbuf(window->window, NULL, GDK_PIXBUF (pixbuf),0,0,100,100,gdk_pixbuf_get_width (pixbuf),gdk_pixbuf_get_height (pixbuf),GDK_RGB_DITHER_NONE,0,0); gtk_main (); return 0; } what is wrong with here. The prog has no error in compiling. please help me Thanks in advance Manoj -- ______________________________________________ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list