On Wed, 07 Mar 2001, Paul Davis wrote:
> >Hi Cyril, the problem is that your top_level_window is not realised when
> >you call gdk_pixmap_create_from_xpm(), so it has no underlying X window
> >yet, and no colormap.
> >
> >I get around this problem by having an invisible top-level window for my
> >application. In main(), just after gtk_init(), I do:
>
> As the FAQ should say (but probably doesn't), use
>
> gdk_pixmap_colormap_new_from_xpm()
I think you mean
gdk_pixmap_colormap_create_from_xpm,
at least I couldn't find
gdk_pixmap_colormap_new_from_xpm
anywhere in the source...
> with the system colormap.
>
> it doesn't need a window. We are all calmly assuming that 1.3/2.0
> removes this confusion from the API :)
Thanks much for your pointer -- it's much cleaner than having to get global
access to a top-level window :-(
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