On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 16:12:09 -0500, Tristan Van Berkom <tvb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Mike Emmel wrote: > > I've noticed that the GdkEventMotion x y positions are given in > > floating point coordinates and was wondering why ? > > I'd assume that this is just because xlib delivers the value > as `double'. > > > I've looking at GTK for embedded use and this is and issue. > > How is floating point coordinates a problem ? > No floating point unit so any floating point math runs through a emulation library and is generally slow. > Btw, > if you are trapping GdkEventMotion you can use: > http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gdk/gdk-Windows.html#gdk-window-get-pointer > on widget->window for an integer version of the mouse location. One reason I wondered why it was float in the first place since in all the use cases it seemd to be chomped back to a int. > > Cheers, > -Tristan > > _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
