And an even better way would be to use cairo instead of gdk for the drawing operations, that is if you have gtk+ version >= 2.8. Use a GdkPixmap, use cairo to draw onto it, and then follow the rest of Michaels idea. --Jacob On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 09:06 -0600, Michael L Torrie wrote: > On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 20:13 +0530, sahlot arvind wrote: > > hello all > > i want to draw four rectangles, i want to draw them in black color but > > want to fill them wid different colors...so problem which i m facing > > is that when i set foreground color to fill the rect then background > > color is also getting set and i am unable to see boundaryy of rect in > > black color rather that is in same color as of filled rect's forground > > color... > > > > i have attached a file which contains drawing i want.... > > some body plz help me out in this regard.. > > Seems to me you want to create a GdkPixmap backing store, draw to that > with Gdk drawing primitives (arc, line, point, rectangle) with the > proper colors and fill, then create a GtkDrawingArea widget. Set up the > expose event to draw the GdkPixmap to the GtkDrawingArea's window. > > See http://www.gtk.org/tutorial/x2491.html and also see the source code > to the Gtk example program, scribble. > > Michael > > > > > Thanks and Regards > > _______________________________________________ > > > > gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list > > _______________________________________________ > > gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
