RE: Am I wasting my time with the "pixmap" theme engine ?



Title: RE: Am I wasting my time with the "pixmap" theme engine ?

Thanks Bruce for your help.

Even assuming the next super cool version of GTK+ includes this as part of the big double-buffering effort, I may still need to do it so that I don't have to upgrade to the new version right away and due to some special customization and needs of my client application.

Can Owen or Havoc tell us definatively whether or not the next version of GTK+ includes this, or whether a patch will become available for GTK+1.2.7, etc., that will do it ? This answer could potentially save me so much effort and I could spend my time on planning to upgrade to the next version rather than satisfying one of my end-users requirements. Thanks in advance for the answer.

If not, can anyone give me any nice pointers to achieving killer drawing performance, when converting the "pixmap" theme engine from GdkImLib to GdkPixbuf. I already have some code, but it's probably not very optimal in relation to how GdkGC's, GdkPixmap's and GdkBitmap's are needed and used after I have loaded the initial GdkPixbuf into memory.

Thanks so very much.
Cheers,
   Tim.

-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Ide [mailto:bruce ide echostar com]
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 12:26 PM
To: Betts, Tim [CDC:3680:EXCH]
Cc: gtk-app-devel-list gnome org
Subject: Re: Am I wasting my time with the "pixmap" theme engine ?


>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Betts <tbetts nortelnetworks com> writes:

    Tim> I am on the verge of converting or deriving a version of the
    Tim> "pixmap" theme engine that uses GdkPixbuf rather than
    Tim> GdkImlib. My motivation is to try to get the GdkRGB-like
    Tim> performance one would expect, and for the code to be portable
    Tim> to at least UNIX and Win32 platforms. Basically, I need a
    Tim> fast-pixmap theme under Win32, but cannot seem to find
    Tim> anything theme-related that is currently compilable or
    Tim> compatible against its core port.

I was kicking around the idea a while back and suggested it here. I
was told that the next release of GTK would do that, so I probably
should hang out and wait for it. Since I don't have a business need
for such a theme, I decided to wait for a while to see what develops.

Of course, I'm not the final authority on such things and don't really
know the Gtk 2.0 timeframe. One of the other forum regulars may have
different information to provide.

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Bruce Ide                                            bruce ide echostar com
http://www.paratheoanametamystikhood.net


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