Re: Getting a Cairo context

[Pramathesh Ambasta <pramathesh ambasta gmail com>]

I too have been  wondering about something similar. How do you get the
widget's drawable cairo context outside of the draw callback.
Pramathesh

On Tue, 2015-03-24 at 15:17 +0300, Sergei Naumov wrote:


> Hi!
> I am developing a program that has to draw some data using Cairo. The question I have is about getting a 
> cairo context from outside of the signal "draw" that the examples describe. I have a multithreaded 
> application where one thread sets up the GTK drawing area, axes, tickmarks, etc. and another thread has to 
> draw in this area. I attach a function  to a "draw" signal on this GTK widget (drawing area) in one thread, 
> but what do I do in another?  
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> -- Sergei
>
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