RE : GdkImage trouble

[David Scrève <dscreve clickteam com>]

> On Thursday 12 Jun 2003 2:32 pm, David Scrève wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> >     I would like to create an off-screen buffer that is a 
> GdkDrawable, 
> > but that allows to access to the image buffer too. GdkImage 
> seems to 
> > be perfect, but it does not seems to be able to create a GdkImage 
> > without any GdkVisual that support the same depth.
> >     For example, I have only one Visual with depth, but I 
> would like to 
> > be able to create GdkImage with depth of 8 or 24 or 32.
> >     I know there is GdkRGB, but GdkRGB is not a 
> GdkDrawable, forbidding 
> > me to use standard graphic operation on it.
> >
> >     Is there any workaround/solution for that ?
>
> Why not create and use a pixmap?

        Because PixMap is a server side data, and you cannot poke inside the
picture buffer...

David