On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 09:01 -0700, Aneto Okonkwo wrote: > Hi, > > Im a bit new to gtk and have had continuing performance issues with > the activity that we are working on. I am trying to figure out which > uses less memory gtk.Image or gtk.gdk.pixbuf and how much of a > difference? I have done some tests of my own but its not clear yet.
gtk.Image is a GtkWidget, which you can embed into a window and do a lot of other stuff with. I can display itself onscreen. gtk.gdk.Pixbuf is not a displayable widget, it's just a backing store for pixel data that can be manipulated. You can pass a GdkPixbuf to a GtkImage and have the image use the pixbuf as the backing buffer. So they are quite different things. You probably only want to use a gtk.Image when you want to display the thing on screen in a window. > Also, how can I clear/delete/unref the image or pixbuf once I am done > using it? gc.collect() doesnt seem to make an impact and I wasnt able > to find a clear description of the syntax for this on the net. Thanks You could try just 'del pixbuf' but I think that has an impact on the GC process in python? I must admit I'm not as knowledgable about that particular interaction between python GC and PyGTK as I should be. but it's probably more related to general Python GC than anything else. Dan > ~ Aneto > > -- > Aneto Okonkwo > BS Management Science & Engineering > MA Education: Learning, Design & Technology > Stanford University > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 650.906.3961 (M) > _______________________________________________ > Sugar mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
