Re: [gtk-list] Re: drawing area size

[Roland Bock <rbock eudoxos de>]

Alexander Kotelnikov wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Roland Bock wrote:
> 
> > I am not sure what amount of data you need per pixel, I guess it is 4
> > Bytes at least. Then you have 5000*5000*4Bytes=100MB.
> >
> 
> You are absolutely right -- I just switched to 8bpp and it works :)

No. Owen was right. It must have been a backing pixmap or something like
that.