On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 15:50 +0800, s88 wrote: > First, I'm building a data analyzer under thr Linux, so there is a > process to generate the data and my analyzer display the data. > My idea is to use a drawable area(I use the GtkDrawingArea) and get > the pix buffer of it by the gdk_pixbuf_get_from_drawable(), then my > background program can fill the pix buffer pix by pix. > > Question 1: anytime I fill to the pixbuf, it will rendering the > drawing area immediately? As Yeti pointed out, there is no such thing as the "pixbuf of the drawable". gdk_pixbuf_get_from_drawable() is only to capture a snapshot of a drawable's current state (it's particularly useful when you're working with offscreen drawables). If you want to draw in the drawing area, you can either do what Yeti suggested, building a pixbuf and drawing it with gdk_draw_pixbuf(). However, unless you must build pixel-by-pixel, this is likely to be slow. If you can draw in lines, rectangles, curves, etc., it's probably better to use the appropriate Cairo calls (or gdk_draw_*(), if you must target GTK+ < 2.8) in the expose handler of your drawing area, or use them on an off-screen drawable (GdkPixmap) and then send this to your drawing area with gdk_draw_drawable() in the expose handler. - Michael -- Michael Ekstrand Research Assistant, Scalable Computing Laboratory Goanna, compute cluster and InfiniBand network monitor tool: http://www.scl.ameslab.gov/Projects/Monitor/ _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list