RE: Drawing area

["Arjan J. Molenaar" <A J Molenaar xirion nl>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: M.N.S.S.K.Pavan Kumar [mailto:pavan@iiit.net]
> Sent: zondag 3 september 2000 17:28
> To: gtk-list@gnome.org
> Subject: Drawing area
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> 
> Hi ,
> 	I have asked the question two days before. I am really 
> waiting for
> reply. Can anyone please tell me how to draw on a drawing area. I have
> drawn using a backing pixmap and an update rectangle .but is 
> this the only
> way to do that. Suppose I don't want to use double buffering and I
> directly want to get input from mouse, how to do that.

Drawing using a backing pixmap is one (the best) way, you can also draw directly to the GdkWindow using the same functions: GdkPixmap and GdkWindow are basically the same.

Double buffering is a good thing IMHO: avoid ugly updates.

Regards,

Arjan

> 	thank you in anticipation,
> 
> bye
> pavan
> 
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