Re: color "scribble-simple" eats up all memory & crashes

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Cevat Ustun <ustun Glue umd edu> writes:
> I have written a simple application that draws a series of points 
> given a starting point and gradually fills the screen (based on 
> scribble-simple.c from the gtk tutorials). The black &white version
> works flawlessly but the color version quickly swells up all the 
> memory taken by X and ultimately crashes. Why? 

You're leaking the graphics context, you have to free it. Also you
want to use gtk_widget_queue_draw(), not gtk_widget_draw() for
efficiency.

Havoc