Re: X11 GC from a GtkDrawingArea?

[Philip Kendall <pak ast cam ac uk>]

On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 06:14:37PM -0500, John Vago wrote:
> I have some open source that creates and draws to an X11 Window.  I'm
> trying to modify  it to
> draw on an drawing area  in an applet.
>
> The 'legacy' code creates a window using  XCreateSimpleWindow() and the
> GC from XCreateGC().
> It then does an XCopyArea using the GC.
>
>  I'm using GtkWidget area = gtk_drawing_area_new() and thought that
> using  area->window would work
> as the GC.

area->window is a GdkWindow*, not a GC.

Use the gtk_gc_* functions to create a GC (see
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/gtk/gtk-graphics-contexts.html)

HTH,

Phil

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