Re: GtkDrawingArea

[John Cupitt ng-london org uk]

Jean-Yves Lamoureux wrote:
> Ok, found the reason :)
> In the doc there is : 
>                           rgb_buf :
>                                   The pixel data, represented as packed 
> 24-bit data.
> 
> 
> So I was thinking buffer was dithered from 24 to XXbpp

It will be dithered if you connect (eg.) to a 15bpp display. If your 
display is 24 or 32, it's passed through untouched. It also uses Xshm if 
it's available.

testrgb.c does some simple benchmarking of your system so you should be 
able to see if it's fast enough.

John



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