Re: Moving a pixmap "sideways"

[Charles Iliya Krempeaux <tnt linux ca>]

Hello,

On Mon, 2001-12-03 at 13:04, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> G Hasse <gh raditex se> writes: 
> > This works nice and is flickerfree BUT!!! The performance is
> > lousy! Is there a way just to move the pixmap (copy it in
> > the X-server) and just redraw the begining every time?
>
> You can copy the existing drawing area contents with
> gdk_window_copy_area(). Performance really shouldn't be that bad
> though... there may be something else that's slow, other than copying
> the new pixmap.

I also depends on how big you pixmap is too.  If the pixmap is too
big you can bring you application to a crawl.  (At least that's been
my experience with doing animations, with stuff like SDL anyways.)

See ya

     Charles Iliya Krempeaux
     tnt @ linux.ca
     ckrempea @ alumni.sfu.ca