> Hola Pachi, > Thanks for the response. I understand what you are saying. I have one > more question before I dive into this. How do I load an image of type > .gif as a pixmap. I thought pixmap was only two colors? And then do I > set it as the background of the drawingarea? The window? or what? I did > not see a "set background image" function/method in the API. > > Gracias, > Mike > 1) pixbufs can load a wide range of image formats as stated in http://pygtk.org/pygtk2reference/class-gdkpixbuf.html#function-gdk--pixbuf-new-from-file (have a look at gtk.gdk.Pixbuf, gtk.gdk.Pixmap and gtk.gdk.Drawable in the reference and read carefully their descriptions)
2) you want to use the DrawingArea's window. The window "is" a drawable a DrawingArea "has" in it. So you can use all gtk.gdk.Drawable methods with such window. 3) think of the gtk.gdk.DrawingArea child window as a piece of paper on which you draw. The difference with a true canvas (or at least with what most people think is a canvas widget) lies in the lack of information about the model being represented, while a canvas has a record of the objects and their relevant properties to be able to render them. So, in a drawing area, if you draw a pixbuf and then draw some lines onto it that is exactly what you get, a background image and some lines onto it. Forget about background, foreground, layers, etc... this is much simpler. You draw as you would do on a piece of paper. Thus, a background image would be the first image drawn on the DrawingArea (window). An interesting pattern that may interest you is double buffering. With this you use an offscreen image (a drawable) to draw onto and then you put set that image as the contents of the drawing area. Also, you could ovelay that image transparently on another one (a "background") on the drawingarea. Hope this helps a bit more... Pachi _______________________________________________ pygtk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.daa.com.au/mailman/listinfo/pygtk Read the PyGTK FAQ: http://www.async.com.br/faq/pygtk/
