On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 13:35 -0500, anurag sogal wrote: > Hello Everybody, > > I reviewed the code for scribble.c program which uses a backing pixmap > to store the what ever is drawn. However when I browsed through the .h > files such as gdkpixmap.h and gdk.h , there was no structure like > GdkPixmap. The documentation says that it is an opaque structure. > Whats does that mean? Pixmaps are server-side objects. the client (your app) has no access to them. > > The reason why I want to know what is inside it is because I want to > use the values within the structure of GdkPixmap to recreate a pixmap > on a remote machine. > > Can somebody tell me where I can find the details of this structure > also can how can I use these values (that I have obtained from within > the structure to re-create the pixmap. you will want to use a GdkPixbuf instead, which is a client-side object that has pixel values that you can actually read. it, like GdkPixmap, is a GdkDrawable, and so can be used for all the same things that a GdkPixmap can. _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
