Re: The correct way to implement a large scrolled canvas

["David J. Singer" <doc deadvirgins org uk>]

On Tuesday 19 October 2004 20:51, Owen Taylor wrote:
>
> There is no memory cost proportional to the size of the drawing area.
> (That's why you need to repaint your drawing area in the expose
> handler...)

But surely for even a moderately complicated "drawing area", you would
need to create and maintain a backing pixmap to speed up the exposures.

I was assuming such a backing pixmap in my original question.  Hence my 
concern about creating a big drawing are and the resultant memory usage.

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David J. Singer
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