Re: Highspeed pixmaps ?!?

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Arndt Schwaiger <arsc0001@stud.uni-sb.de> writes:
> Is it possible to use perhaps something like OpenGL under gtk or gtk--
> in a drawing area widget to solve my speed problem ? Is it possible with
> OpenGL to copy only 2d graphics very fast in a gtk drawing area ?
> Is it possible to use OpenGL only for my drawing area widget and all
> other things like toplevel-window, menus, toolbars etc. can be unchanged
> ?? Or is there any other possibility to copy pixmaps or other formats
> like color bitmaps very fast on a gtk drawing area ??

You might look at GtkGLArea. 

Also, I suspect your drawing area code could be optimized, it
shouldn't be all that slow...

Havoc