On Tuesday 19 October 2004 20:51, Owen Taylor wrote: > > There is no memory cost proportional to the size of the drawing area. > (That's why you need to repaint your drawing area in the expose > handler...) But surely for even a moderately complicated "drawing area", you would need to create and maintain a backing pixmap to speed up the exposures. I was assuming such a backing pixmap in my original question. Hence my concern about creating a big drawing are and the resultant memory usage. -- David J. Singer doc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana" _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
