gdk_drawing_area problem

[Christoph Krampf <chriskrampf freenet de>]

Hi there,

I'm writing a little game for my son and I ran into some problems:

I need to draw some shapes, so I guess I have to use gdk_drawing_area and
therefore I have to create a pixmap.
But I want to use the background provided by the theme I'm using (which is
a pixmap theme, in case that matters).
 How can I do that?
I was reading a lot of documentation and looked in the mailing list's
archive, but didn't find any clues for my specific problem (being the
newbie on GTK-drawing functions that I am).

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

Chris