Re: [newbie] How to plot to drawing_area

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On Monday, February 3, 2003, at 04:52 PM, Roland Smith wrote:
> Well, nowadays you'll probably get fewer complaints if you say "only 
> works on 24
> or 16 bits colordepth". Certainly for a scientific app.

You have a point there. Hmm...

> GdkRGB is pretty fast. but you could deploy the GUI from a different 
> process if
> you do now want it to impede the app. Look at 
> g_spawn_async_with_pipes() in the
> Glib manual. Just spawn the GUI, write the RGB data to the pipe, and 
> have the
> GUI process read and display it.

I'll have to learn about pipes and such, because at this point I don't 
know enough.

> If you might want a GUI later, then don't implement in xlib now, or 
> you'll be
> rewiting it later. :-)

Yes, you do have a point.  I also want to see how satisfactory it is 
with no GUI, just the window, because I want this to depend on the 
least possible number of libraries, and more people have xlib than have 
Gtk. On the other hand, I could do the floating palette in Gtk, and 
connect the close button for example to an xlib function that kills the 
display window... in any case that is quite far down the road.

Paul