drawing a pixel of any color in a Drawing area

[Andrew Price <andrew price eng monash edu au>]

I want to be able to draw a pixel of a user defined color in a drawing
area

Typically I am using gdk_draw_point
however the only styles I am aware of are black_gc and white_gc.

How can I make gdk_draw_point draw a pixel of any color in a 16bit color
space?

(NOT 24 bit color space)
Andrew
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