Alpha rendering

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

What's the preferred way in GTK 2.0 to use a 8-bit gray image as an alpha
mask for solid color rendering onto a drawable?  It should be reasonably
fast and not depend on other libraries than what's in the GTK 2.0
distribution.

Thanks,
-Lars

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