Re: Drawing

[Hazael Maldonado Torres <gtk-development itxolutions com>]

You may want to use gnome canvas instead which will provide you with 
many primitives and many ore features. Have a look in the gnome 
documentation.

> Hello All,
>
> please, help me with some basic problems, related to drawing.
>
> What I want is to draw some things on the drawing_area with a certain
> color - red rectangle, for example.
>
> this is what I wrote in expose_event handler:
>
> ...
> GdkDrawable * hWnd = widget->window;
> GkdGC * hDC = widget->style->fg_gc[ GTK_WIDGET_STATE( widget ) ];
> GdkColor color;
> gdk_color_parse( "FF0000", &color );
> gdk_gc_set_foreground( hDC, &color );
> gdk_draw_rectangle( hWnd, hDC, 0, 0, 0, 30, 30 );
>
> I get this rectangle, but of lilac color, and all other widgets in a
> window became lilac ...
>
> What I need to have only my rectangle in the drawing_area with a red
> color and then, for example, some line there in any other color ?
>