Re: [newbie] How to plot to drawing_area

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On Sunday, February 2, 2003, at 06:43 PM, Roland Smith wrote:
>
> I've used Xlib and Athena before switching to GTK+, and IMHO it isn't 
> pretty.
> :-( Especially if you want it to work on all available colordepths etc.
>

Yes, from what I've seen in the tutorials... one has to get one's brain 
around all available colourdepths. Ergh.


> For me, I would only use Xlib if I was on a platform that was slow or 
> very
> resource constrained, and if a proper GUI was not necessary, i.e. you 
> just want
> to show a picture or movie.
>

Yes, it's sort of that but from another point of view: I want the 
greatest speed in displaying the image, and hopefully that it won't 
impact the calculation that is being run behind it (this will be for a 
scientific app).
And yes, a GUI won't be necessary. I *may* add a palette in a separate  
floating window with "Quit" "Save" "Close" in the future. That's why I 
turned to Gtk initially (and besides, I decided that it was about time 
that


Paul