Re: transparent pixmaps and drawables...

[Havoc Pennington <rhp zirx pair com>]

On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Thomas Niederreiter wrote:
> 
> anybody knows how to draw a transparent pixmap with 
> gdk_draw_pixmap to a drawable?
> Its works fine, but all transparent-parts are drawn with the background-color
> instead leaving it free. Also the draw_pixmap command does not support
> any masks...so it cant work this way, right?
> 
> Ok..any hints how to get my nice pixmap drawn correctly?
> 

You want to set the clip mask and clip origin of your graphics context. A
quick look through gdk.h will reveal the proper functions. The clip origin
should be the same as the pixmap coordinates, so the mask and the pixmap
are lined up.

Havoc