RE: Saving a GdkDrawable/GdkPixmap to a picture file

[Michael Rothwell <rothwell holly-springs nc us>]

For an example of saving a GdkPixbuf to a file, using libjpeg, see
http://vnccam.sourceforge.net/

-M

On 26 Apr 2001 09:45:05 -0400, Tanikella, Rajanikanth wrote:
> Thanks. The gkd/gtkx.h helped with the display, but I still don't see how to
> get an X Pixmap from a GdkPixmap. I see GdkPixmap *gdk_pixmap_foreign_new()
> to go from X Pixmap to GdkPixmap, but I'd like to go the other way so that I
> can use XpmWriteFileFromPixmap() to write it. Using a GdkPixmap causes a bad
> drawable error. Is there something I'm overlooking? (I'm figuring the likely
> answer is 'yes.')
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Raj
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Havoc Pennington [mailto:hp redhat com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 1:52 PM
> To: Tanikella, Rajanikanth
> Subject: Re: Saving a GdkDrawable/GdkPixmap to a picture file
>
>
>
> "Tanikella, Rajanikanth" <Rajanikanth Tanikella scr siemens com> writes:
> > Along these same lines, is it possible to save the pixmap to a file? I
> have
> > not found a GTK/GDK call that wraps or resembles
> >
> > XpmWriteFileFromPixmap(
> >     Display *display,
> >     char *filename,
> >     Pixmap pixmap,
> >     Pixmap shapemask,
> >     XpmAttributes *attributes
> >     )
> >
> > Is there a way to access the Display structure and the Pixmap structure
> from
> > GTK+? They seem well hidden by GTK+. The GdkPixmap, for example, is just a
> > struct containing a single gpointer. Is there an X Pixmap in there that I
> > can access?
>
> See gdk/gdkx.h.
>
> Havoc
>
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