Re: GdkBitmap

[Richard Plana <rplana zicorp com>]

Thanks and my apologies. I was looking at the wrong pages. That said, I 
still couldn't find a way to arbitrarilly create a GdkBitmap from 
scratch (ie. just specify a width and a height) and to modify its pixel 
contents (set and unset pixels). All of the functions I've seen which 
create GdkBitmaps require either an XBM or an XPM or an Imlib supported 
image).

If there are already convenience functions to create and manipulate 
GdkBitmap files (or, lacking that, XBM in-memory data), I'd dearly love 
to know about it. No point in re-inventing the wheel.

Thanks.


Sven Neumann wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Richard Plana <rplana zicorp com> writes:
>
>  
>
> > Could someone explain the GdkBitmap structure? I need to create a
> > shaped window which requires a bitmap of the transparent and visible
> > (0 and 1) pixels of a window as a GdkBitmap, but the API reference
> > guide doc has nothing on its format. The only bit of info I've found
> > on the Internet is a reference to a function which returns a GdkBitmap
> > object from an image (using the Imlib library and
> > gdk_imlib_copy_mask() function). I actually have a function which
> > plots the areas in the window which is transparent and which isn't.
> >
> > Better yet, are there functions which allow one to create GdkBitmap
> > objects and manipulate it (ie. turn pixels(x,y) on and off)?
> >    
>
> A GdkBitmap is a GdkPixmap is a GdkDrawable. The API reference
> mentions lots of ways to create and manipulate these.
>
>
> Sven
>  

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*Richard Neal Plana, B.Sc., CCNA*
Lead Software Engineer
Zi Corp.