Class GDK1.Drawable

Description

The GDK1.Bitmap, GDK1.Window and GDK1.Pixmap classes are all GDK drawables.

This means that you can use the same set of functions to draw in them.

Pixmaps are offscreen drawables. They can be drawn upon with the standard drawing primitives, then copied to another drawable (such as a GDK1.Window) with window->draw_pixmap(), set as the background for a window or widget, or otherwise used to show graphics (in a W(Pixmap), as an example). The depth of a pixmap is the number of bits per pixels. Bitmaps are simply pixmaps with a depth of 1. (That is, they are monochrome bitmaps - each pixel can be either on or off).

Bitmaps are mostly used as masks when drawing pixmaps, or as a shape for a GDK1.Window or a W(Widget)