I have a drawing area consisting of a background image, and I'm using the function below to redraw the image on resize or any other expose event. The MainMenu class inherits from Gtk::Window. The issue I'm having is that the image does not redraw properly until the window is iconified and deiconified. If the window is the image will become progressively darker and darker until it is nearly black. If a menu is drawn on top of the area either the problem above will happen or the area under will become blank (white). Once the window gets iconified and deiconified the DrawingArea has a normal appearance. My background image is compiled directly into a library at runtime rather than reading in from disk. I believe it was originally a PNG with alpha transparency. I have noticed that if I use another transparent XPM and create the pixbuf from a file statically this does not occur - the redrawing works perfectly.
I am not using the DrawingArea anywhere else in the program except for the constructor and this function. There are no signals bound to the DrawingArea or image. I've tried binding the signal like so: da->signal_expose_event().connect(sigc::mem_fun(*this,&MainMenu::on_expose_event)); and it doesn't appear to change anything. //da is a Gtk::DrawingArea, image is a Glib::RefPtr<Gdk::Pixbuf> //MainMenu inherits from Gtk::Window bool MainMenu::on_expose_event(GdkEventExpose* event) { Glib::RefPtr<Gdk::Pixbuf> tmpimage = image->scale_simple(da->get_width(), da->get_height(),Gdk::INTERP_BILINEAR); tmpimage->render_to_drawable(da->get_window(), da->get_style()->get_white_gc(), 0, 0, 0, 0, da->get_width(),da->get_height(),Gdk::RGB_DITHER_NONE, 0, 0); Gtk::Window::on_expose_event(event); return true; } I also tried using the full scale() function and got the same result. So my question is, does the problem lie in my on_expose_event function, or the compiled image i'm using, or somewhere else? My coworker who originally created the image library thinks it could be a bug in gtkmm or possibly the window manager or something more fundamental than my program. Thanks, Will Megee Software Engineer Fiscal Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ gtkmm-list mailing list gtkmm-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtkmm-list