Re: About GTK 2.13.x window redirection

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 11:21 +0200, Gabriele Greco wrote:
> I've read with much interest the new features of the unstable branch, will
> the window redirection feature allow to use GTK+ to render to offscreen
> bitmaps?

yes.

> This will allow a quite easy GTK+ deployment on top of OpenGL, that will be
> a very useful feature...

the redirection is only done once, so you will have to keep updating it;
it will also not affect the event handling, so you will not be able to
interact with any widget redirected to a GdkPixmap.

the event redirection is part of a more complicated patch that has not
been applied yet.

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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