Re: Rotating pixmap

[David Morse <morse wingededge com>]

Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> wrote:
> Marco Quezada <mquezada nlxcorp com> writes:
> > I have a defined a draing area inside which I display a small icon (an
> > arrow). The icon is a pixmap which gets loaded with
> > gdk_pixmap_create_from_xpm_d and such. The XPM of the arrow shows the
> > arrow pointing to the right. I would like to show the arrow rotating
> > like a compass. Is it possible to rotate the pixmap when drawing it onto
> > the drawing area?
>
> No. (That is, GTK provides no way. You can write your own code, but
> it's not trivial.)

For such a simple figure, I would say you should draw it as a sequence of
lines, not as a pixmap.



Or you could do the good old computer game thing and create ~12 pixmaps,
all of the arrow in various directions, then draw the one you want.