Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!ukma!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!athena.mit.edu!rfrench From: rfrench@athena.mit.edu (Robert S. French) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: XGetImage from an unmapped Window - how to? Message-ID: <5895@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> Date: 24 Jun 88 19:52:15 GMT References: <154@cyclopes.UUCP> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Reply-To: rfrench@athena.mit.edu (Robert S. French) Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 13 In article <154@cyclopes.UUCP> stergios@cyclopes.UUCP (Stergios Marinopoulos) writes: >Is there a way to XGetImage from an unmapped window? The man page >states "If the drawable is a window, the window must be mapped, ...." > >My motivation is this: create an unmapped window, render stuff into >it, store that image, delete the window, and flash the image back some >time later through the use of XPutImage. Since a Pixmap is also a Drawable, doesn't it seem easier to create a Pixmap and render into _it_ directly, thus bypassing the Window/XGetImage route? Rob