Re: Changing the Drawing Area Coordinate Origin

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Mark Jones <mark jones106 verizon net> writes:
> Currently my drawing area's origin (x=0, y=0) is at the top left
> corner of the "canvas".  Since I am used to the Cartesian plane, this
> is not ideal.  I would like it to be the lower left corner.  Is there
> any way to do this?  Right now I am doing it by subtracing my y value
> from the vertical size, but I would rather not do it that way if it is
> possible.  Is the origin changeable?

No. You could write trivial wrappers around gdk_draw_* that inverted
the coordinates, if you wanted.

Havoc