On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 05:11:38PM +0300, Olexiy Avramchenko wrote: > There's one trick: > 1. Create a pixmap with depth of 32. > 2. Create gc for the pixmap. > 3. Set the 32-bit colour you want with gdk_gc_set_foreground() > (0xAABBGGRR for the little-endian boxes, 0xRRGGBBAA for the big-endian > ones). > 4. Use any some GDK drawing primitives to draw on pixmap. > 5. Create image from pixmap. > 6. Create pixbuf with alpha-channel from image. > 7. Do whatever you want with pixbuf. > > I think (didn't check, however, with a new GDK) that you'll not be able > to draw a Pango layout to such pixmap with gdk_draw_layout(). The > possible solution is to use X11 calls (they should work ok) or to render > layout manually. Thanks a lot, I need something cross platform, so I can't use X11 calls, but redering text manually with FT2 is OK. Yeti P.S.: Sorry for the late reply ;) -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list