Re: Colors and GDK, this the best way?

[Eric Harlow <linuxgeek yahoo com>]

Didn't work.  Dies in XSetForeground.

called from gdk_gc_set_foreground. 


---Jon Trowbridge <trow@emccta.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 07:57:14PM -0700, Eric Harlow wrote:
> > 
> > After muddling with GDK and playing with trying to change the colors
> > in a drawable area, I got the following segment of code to work so I
> > can use the "bluegc" to draw blue lines and such. (see bottom)
> > ...
> > Seems that gtk is a bit more complicated than it should be.  Perhaps
> > I'm doing it the hard way.  Is there a quicker and better way to
get a
> > gc that I can use to draw lines? 
> 
> Yes, you are making it harder on yourself than necessary.  Try:
> 
>   GdkGC bluegc;
>   GdkColor c;
> 
>   c.red   = 0;
>   c.green = 0;
>   c.blue  = 0xffff;
> 
>   /* Optionally, use the colormap of your choice here */
>   gdk_color_alloc(gdk_colormap_get_system(), &c);
> 
>   gdk_gc_set_foreground(&bluegc, &c);
> 
> 
> -JT
> 
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