Re: Copying X pixmap.

[Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com>]

>First, sorry if this gets posted twice *
>
>Can someone point me in the proper direction on how to do this...
>
>I have an X pixmap (Pixmap) and I would like to copy its contents onto a
>GdkWindow.  I have tried to use XCopyArea() to do this but it appears that
>the background is redrawn over the copied pixmap.  I set it up so the
>XCopyArea() occurs in the windows expose event. You can actually see the
>pixmap contents as it blinks when you resize the window but it is
>immediately replaced by the standard gray background color.  Can someone
>tell me what I may be doing wrong?

you can *only* draw in an expose_event handler.