Re: Draw a GtkWidget to a Pixmap?

[John Coppens <john jcoppens com>]

On Sat, 09 Oct 2004 16:01:17 +0530
Gaurav Jain <gaurav adobe com> wrote:

> Hi,
>  
> Is there a way to draw a GtkWidget not to a Window, but to an offline
> Pixmap?
>  
> One way is to take a snapshot of the screen and then do XCreatePixmap
> and XCopyArea, but in my case, the widget is NOT shown on the screen at
> all.
>  
> Any inputs would be highly helpful.

Hi...

On a GnomeCanvas (which does not have to be on-screen), you can draw
widgets. From there on it should be possible to generate the pixmap.
Never tried to do it, but it seems feasable.

John