Re: Sprites and Animation

[Max Watson <redline intrex net>]

Jan Kellmer wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> I'm porting a windows app to Linux, Using gtk+/imlib and (later)
> gnome. For this application I need to move smoothly some pixmaps
> loaded by imlib. What's the best way to do that?
> Currently I wrote a little program (heavily based on Rasters imlib
> examples), that sets the background pixmap and then (in the
> event-loop) I set the background-pixmap again, clear the window
> and paste the sprite with gdk_imlib_paste_image. It's flickering
> like hell and the processor load goes to 100%. I'm sure there is a much
> better way to do things like that.


You are looking for the GNOME Canvas widget. It is in the gnome-libs
module. The canvas handles all of the messy redraws, etc. 

Max Watson <redline@intrex.net>