Re: Trying to set the palette in a window

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

"Robert Young" <robwolfman hotmail com> writes:
> I have a simple window which contains a drawrea widget.  The goal is to draw
> some rgb images into the drawarea, which I have been able to do using the
> gdk_draw_rgb_image function.
>
> The problem is that the image(s) use a special palette, and when I paint the
> image the colors are off.
>
> The palette information is a 256 array of the three color values (red, green,
> blue).  I just cannot determine how to create/associate a colormap containing
> the palette information with the window/drawarea.
>
> I've delved into the online documentation and the standard 2 gtk/gnome books
> but no luck.
>
> Any hints on how to get started on resolving this problem?

I'm not sure how to use it exactly, but gdkrgb.h has some stuff to use
a GdkRgbCmap and draw an "indexed" image that might be what you want.

Havoc