Thanks for the code and the explanation. Now, it's quite clear.
Last thing I wanted to know is, do I need to always have "configure_event"
handler to create the offscreen surface.
Can't we create the offscreen surface in "expose_event" handler itself?
I tried with this (after commenting "configure_event" callback) which also
seems to do the same thing as your code.

static gboolean
draw_cb (GtkWidget      *widget,
         GdkEventExpose *event,
         gpointer        data)
{
  cairo_t *off_cr, *cr;

  g_print("draw event\n");

  surface = gdk_window_create_similar_surface (event->window,
                                               CAIRO_CONTENT_COLOR,
                                               event->area.width,
                                               event->area.height);

  off_cr = cairo_create(surface);
  cairo_set_source_rgb(off_cr, 1, 0, 0);
  cairo_paint (off_cr);

  cairo_move_to (off_cr, 100, 100);
  cairo_set_source_rgb (off_cr, 0, 0, 0);
  cairo_set_font_size (off_cr, 20);
  cairo_show_text (off_cr, "Offscreen buffer is red");


  cr = gdk_cairo_create (event->window);
  cairo_set_source_surface(cr, surface, 0, 0);
  cairo_paint(cr);

  cairo_move_to (cr, 200, 200);
  cairo_set_source_rgb (cr, 0, 1, 0);
  cairo_set_font_size (cr, 20);
  cairo_show_text (cr, "This text is not blitted");

  cairo_destroy (cr);

  return TRUE;
}

Regards
Prasanta
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Tadej Borovšak <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello.
>
> Have a look at this code (targeted at GTK+-2.x):
>
> #include <gtk/gtk.h>
>
> static cairo_surface_t *surface = NULL;
>
> static gboolean
> configure_event_cb (GtkWidget         *widget,
>                     GdkEventConfigure *event,
>                     gpointer           data)
> {
>   cairo_t *cr;
>
>   g_print("configure event: %d, %d\n", event->width, event->height);
>
>   if (surface)
>     cairo_surface_destroy (surface);
>
>   surface = gdk_window_create_similar_surface (event->window,
>                                                CAIRO_CONTENT_COLOR,
>                                                event->width,
>                                                event->height);
>
>   cr = cairo_create(surface);
>   cairo_set_source_rgb(cr, 1, 0, 0);
>   cairo_paint (cr);
>
>   cairo_move_to (cr, 100, 100);
>   cairo_set_source_rgb (cr, 0, 0, 0);
>   cairo_set_font_size (cr, 20);
>   cairo_show_text (cr, "Offscreen buffer is red");
>
>   cairo_destroy(cr);
>
>   return FALSE;
> }
>
> static gboolean
> draw_cb (GtkWidget      *widget,
>          GdkEventExpose *event,
>          gpointer        data)
> {
>   cairo_t *cr;
>
>   g_print("draw event\n");
>
>   cr = gdk_cairo_create (event->window);
>
>   cairo_set_source_surface(cr, surface, 0, 0);
>   cairo_paint(cr);
>
>   cairo_move_to (cr, 200, 200);
>   cairo_set_source_rgb (cr, 0, 1, 0);
>   cairo_set_font_size (cr, 20);
>   cairo_show_text (cr, "This text is not blitted");
>
>   cairo_destroy (cr);
>
>   return TRUE;
> }
>
> int
> main(int    argc,
>      char **argv)
> {
>   GtkWidget *window,
>             *area;
>
>   gtk_init(&argc, &argv);
>
>   window = gtk_window_new(GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL);
>   gtk_window_set_default_size (GTK_WINDOW (window), 1200, 800);
>   g_signal_connect (window, "destroy", gtk_main_quit, NULL);
>
>   area = gtk_drawing_area_new();
>   g_signal_connect (area, "expose-event",
>                     G_CALLBACK (draw_cb), NULL);
>   g_signal_connect (area, "configure-event",
>                     G_CALLBACK(configure_event_cb), NULL);
>   gtk_container_add (GTK_CONTAINER (window), area);
>
>   gtk_widget_show_all(window);
>   gtk_main();
>
>   return 0;
> }
>
>
> surface is your offscreen buffer and contains red background and black
> text. This is then blitted during expose-event and to finish off, some
> green text is added. And that's it.
>
> Cheers,
> Tadej
>
>
> --
> Tadej Borovšak
> blog.borovsak.si
> [email protected]
> [email protected]
>
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