No, it only exists during expose events, there is no double buffer at any other time. You should be able to grab pixmaps of obscured windows though: I thought this is what GraphicsExpose events were for? Not sure about partially offscreen windows. On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 14:38:07 +0100, Mike Hearn <mike@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 13:49:14 +0800, James Henstridge wrote: > > In X11, windows (unlike pixmaps) have no backing store. If they aren't > > on screen, or are obscured, then there is no contents to grab. > > Is there really no way to access the GTK double buffer? _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
