Re: Pb w/ gc, pixmap and darea

[Taura Milana <learfox furry ao net>]

On 2001.12.13 06:52 Lewin A.R.W. Edwards wrote:

> My scenario is this: I have total control over the hardware (cue manic 
> laugh). I know the physical display format. I never need to care about my
>
> application running correctly on any other hardware. I work internally
> with 
> 8:8:8 RGB but the display is physically 5:6:5. All that concerns me is
> that 
> I want a faster way of rendering content onto the screen. I get much
> faster 
> results using the VESA framebuffer console instead of GDK buffers, but I 
> don't want to do that because one of my subprograms works much better if
> it 
> can use xvm to change resolution temporarily on the fly.

I understand now, since portability is not an issue then you can
hard code to your heart's content. :)


> Pixmaps are only supported under 2.x though, aren't they? What exactly do
> I 
> have to do to move from my current model to pixmaps?

I'm not sure if 2.x has them or not. If you just plan to draw lines,
images and other simple things then you can use GdkPixmaps entirly.
However if you want to blit anything fancier, say additive blitting
or blending an image, then it gets much more complex.


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