Re: creating a pixmap from a char*

["Leandro A. F. Pereira" <leandro linuxmag com br>]

Quoted by a lot of funky dolphins
For `Rajarshi Guha <rajarshi presidency com>' 
On Monday, 02 June 2003 (21:16):

>   I've been using glade to design a GUI. At one point I need to create a
> pixmap. Glade gives me a create_pixmap() function but this loads a
> pixmap from  a file. My program stores pixmaps in a char* and I could'nt
> find any gtk/gdk functions which will let me create a pixmap from a
> char*  -is there any way I can create a pixmap from a XPM stored in a
> char*?

        Use gdk-pixbuf. First do a gdk_pixbuf_new_from_data(), then convert it to a
GdkPixmap with gdk_pixbuf_render_pixmap_and_mask().

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