Re: Pixmap-theme woes (Was: Re: Off-by-one in gdk_draw_poly)

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Tomas Ogren <stric@ing.umu.se> writes:

> On 21 November, 1998 - Owen Taylor sent me these 2.8K bytes:
> 
> [polygon stuff snipped]
> > > BTW, did my bug-report on pixmap-themes really end up here? I haven't
> > > seen it in the archives.. now I'm subscribed here and hope that this
> > > report comes through...
> > > 
> > > Short on the pixmap-theme bug: http://www.ing.umu.se/~stric/gtkgimp.gif
> > > gdkrgb and some other special-widgets never shows up, instead you get
> > > whatever is behind them... (I've started a new image, so the gdkrgb
> > > should display a pure white color, instead I get my background pic)
> > 
> > It think what you are seeing is that with gtk+-themes, you are not
> > allowed to draw on arbitrary widgets. You are only allowed to draw on
> > GtkDrawingArea and GtkDrawWindow widgets.
> >  
> > > I'm using linux/x86 gimp -> 8bit sun display.
> > 
> > Hmmm, that would make poking around in the X source difficult.
> 
> Me, maru and yosh did some tests and here are the results:
> non-ssh, sweden -> usa (yosh)- works
> non-ssh, sweden -> .at (maru)- works
> ssh, sweden -> usa (yosh)    - not work
> ssh, sweden -> .at (maru)    - not work
> ssh, sweden inside lan       - not work
> non-ssh, inside lan          - works most of the times.. but not always
>                                most often fails when displays are slow
> local (DISPLAY=:0.0)         - works
> 
> I've tried the following locally:
> Linux/x86 - 8, 16, 24bpp
> Sun/sparc - 8, 24bpp
> Irix/R4k  - 8, 24bpp (the 24bpp thing has like 1,2,4,8,12,24 but chose 24)
> 
> yosh and maru uses linux/x86 and 16bpp+ (iirc)
> 
> I don't think it's the latency alone, since non-ssh over the atlantic must
> give more latency than with ssh but inside the lan...
> 
> My guess would be some timing-problem like the color-selector had before...
> 
> Source (to non-linux X) could pretty sure be dug out on demand..
> 
> Any clues? (and why does it _only_ affect pixmap-based themes?)

What exactly works or does not work?

If your program is drawing on anything other than a DrawingArea
or DrawingWindow, if it ever works, that is pure coincidence.

                                        Owen