On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 23:24, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > what's the difference between an xlib Window, Display and Drawable? as in: > > Window win; > Display dpy; > Drawable drw; > > pete
I'm quite far from an xlib expert; but I do have volume 1 of the O'reilly series handy... Drawables consist of windows and pixmaps (offscreen memory regions you can draw to). You can safely specify a Window or Pixmap anywhere Drawable is expected as argument (they're all integer types, so no nasty, unsafe casting required). Displays hold information about an X server and its screens. Think of the common "-display" option in X apps. The Display type is a struct, whereas (as already mentioned) Window, Pixmap and Drawable are int types. HTH, Micah _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
