Re: [gtk-list] GDK newbie

[Sven Neumann <neumanns uni-duesseldorf de>]

Hi,

> I'm having some serious trouble figuring out GDK, especially the graphics
> context things, colors, and things like that. I set out to make a program
> sort of like "xflame", my first project with GTK/GDK. I have a drawable,
> and i am able to draw lines and such, and i have been able to somehow
> select the color i want, but i don't have a clue how it works :) I've
> tried reading the source, and the docs (not that the docs are very
> up-to-date), but neither helped me a lot. Does anyone know where i can get
> info on this? How did any of you figure this out? I've never done any real
> X programming before.

Hmm, xflame. If I remember correctly, there's a gimp plugin in the standard 
1.0 distribution that is sort of a port of xflame to the gimp. And of course 
it uses GDK and GTK for the drawing. Might be a good start...

Salut, Sven