Re: Newbie Q: What to use ...

[Christer Palm <palm nogui se>]

Soren Kuula wrote:
> 1) Stick with Xlib primitives for displaying ants ? OK, but I can't see 
> which kind of widget that will allow
>    me to use XLib drawing primitives on it, or how to somehow extract an 
> XWindow from a widget

As already pointed out, using Xlib is fine. If you want a more powerful 
way of doing fast low-level graphics, you should have a look at SDL 
(http://www.libsdl.org/index.php), which at least used to be rather 
painless to use together with GTK+. I think there's even an example in 
there...

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Christer Palm