Re: GdkPixbuf and FIFO's

[John Cupitt <jcupitt gmail com>]

On 8/22/05, Alex Levin <alex cacmedia tv> wrote:
> Hi everyone.  I'm trying to pass a GdkPixbuf object through a FIFO from
> one thread to another.  Does anyone have any code snippets which does
> something similar to this?  Thanks in advance.

If the two threads are in the same process, you could just send a
pointer to the pixbuf.

If they are not in the same address space, I guess you could use
gdk_pixbuf_save_to_buffer() to write the pixbuf to a memory area, then
send down the FIFO, then reconstruct with a pixbuf loader.

John