Re: Saving a GdkDrawable/GdkPixmap to a picture file

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Wolfgang Sourdeau <wolfgang contre com> writes:
> > > > > > "Tanikella," == Tanikella, Rajanikanth <Rajanikanth Tanikella scr siemens com> writes:
>
> > 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.')
>
> Including gdk/gdkprivate.h (which is evil) you can cast your GdkPixmap* to
> a GdkWindowPrivate *. And then access its xwindow member.
> It should work.

Use the macros in gdkx.h instead of accessing the struct directly, and
your code will continue to work with GTK 2.

Havoc