Re: Extract image from Gtk::Image

[Andreas Bauer <baueran rsise anu edu au>]

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 05:06:39PM -0400, José Alburquerque wrote:

> > I have a somewhat largish Gtk::Image in my program, and would like to
> > take out rectangular areas from it, which in turn should be
> > represented as Gtk::Images for later use.
> > 
> > Does someone have any idea on how to achieve this with gtkmm? 
> > 
> > I assume I need to do something with a Pixbuffer as intermediate step,
> > but it wasn't obvious to me on how to actually proceed.
> 
> Use one of the Gdk::Pixbuff::create() methods that accept a Gtk::Image.
> After, construct your images with one of the Gtk::Image constructors. 

I think, the create methods accept Gdk::Image if at all, or am I
missing something?

Thanks,

Andreas.