Re: help on plotting RGB data

[John Cupitt ng-london org uk]

simith nambiar wrote:
> hi list,
>          i have a problem here ! i have a Logitech
> Quickcam driver - v4l compliant and i am reading data 
> - the driver gives a frame of 352 X 288 pixels in RGB
> format (3 bytes/pixel), now i need to plot it on a
> window using gtk
> 
>  i should be using GdkDrawable - if iam not wrong ,
> iam new to GTK. so could anyone tell me how i can 
> put the RGB data on to the drawing area, is there a
> built-in function to do that, iam not very well
> acquainted with certain parameters in the Gdk.h
> file.Please throw some light on that.

Hi Simith, you need gdk_draw_rgb_image(), it does exactly what you want. 
Look at the source of testrgb.c in the gtk area for examples.

J



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