Re: pixmaps etc

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

david rohde <s371117 student uq edu au> writes:
> I am at the moment writing a gimp plug in.  The program needs to display an
> image made up of smaller squares (tiles).  The program generates these
> squares on the fly.  I am interested in finding out the best way to do this.
>
> At the moment the approach I am using is a table filled with pixmaps.  I
> have been unable to get this to work.  I think my problems is that the
> pixmap functions uses GdkColor paramater for the background and foreground.
> I have been unable to work out what these paramaters are used for.  (I have
> made an effort to find this on the web, but gave up after some hours).

gdk_draw_pixmap() doesn't use the colors for anything. 
 
> Is there a better approach to take than using pixmaps?
> If not can someone point me in the direction of some documentation on what
> these paramaters do.

I would generally approach this problem with either a GtkDrawingArea
or a GnomeCanvas, rendering either GdkPixmap or GdkPixbuf to the
canvas/area, the choices depend on how you generate the tiles and what
you are doing with them.

Havoc