Re: can i have full alpha channel at client side?

[Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev gmx net>]

Olexiy Avramchenko wrote:
> > As far as i know, pixbufs are server-side objects and should therefore
> > be quite slow.  Is there a way to get a client-side analog of a pixbuf
> > with full alpha channel (eight bits)?  I was only able to find how to
> > generate 1 bit client-side alpha, which doesn't suffice for me.
>
> Its client-side. You can obtain the pointer to pixbuf's data via
> gdk_pixbuf_get_pixels().

I think i got confused about X architecture.  Now it seems that the server
is always local for the user who runs an application, while the client might
be remote, if the application is run on a remote machine, right?  It's just
common that the server is "there" while it's client is "here", but for an X
application it seems logical to be the way round.

If the things are like that, i have to rephrase: since pixbufs are client-
side, they must be slow (i.e. they need to be transferred to the server for
rendering).  So, is there a way to have something with full alpha, but at
the server?

After all, i don't care a lot about architecture.  I create images with full
alpha channel and then draw them constantly.  I don't need access to their
pixels after they have been created.  So, what do i use, pixbufs or something
else, to preserve full alpha and render as fast as possible?

thanks in advance
Paul


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