Re: Off-screen drawing of GTK widgets

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 18:54 +0530, Varun Khaneja wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have been trying to find out about
> the support of off-screen drawing of GTK widgets using Cairo (or any
> other library), but haven't been much successful.
> What I really need to do is to be able to capture the image of the widget
> without actually showing
> it on the screen, which is called off-screen drawing (if my undersanding is
> correct).
> 
> Towards this, any pointers would be very much appreciated.

There is a huge patch implementing that here:

  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=offscreen

behdad

> Thanks,
> Varun
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