Re: [gtk-list] gdk_image_get and memory management

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico redhat com>]

>  I want to use the gdk_image_get function to convert a GdkPixmap 
>  to a GdkImage. If I retrieve the image using gdk_image_get and 
>  immediately call gdk_pixmap_unref on the pixmap, will the 
>  retrieved image still be valid? Or, do I have to make a copy of the 
>  image from the value retrieved by gdk_image_get into a new 
>  GdkImage structure?

Pixmap data lives in the X server, while image data lives in your X
client, so you do not need to do anything special.

  Federico