QPainter over Xlib window

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January 19, 2011

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Lab Rat
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Suppose i have an XID of a window. How can i wrap QPainter to draw on this window? I need something like cairo_xlib_surface_create(), but Qt-based.

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January 19, 2011

peppe

Ant Farmer
1025 posts

Not sure about X Windows, but you can paint on X Pixmaps using QPixmap::fromX11Pixmap(id, QPixmap::ExplicitlyShared) and painting on it.

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January 19, 2011

10110111

Lab Rat
3 posts

> Not sure about X Windows, but you can paint on X Pixmaps using QPixmap::fromX11Pixmap(id,
> QPixmap::ExplicitlyShared) and painting on it.
Will drawing on it update pixmap on X server side, or will this be a new QPixmap (a copy) when i draw on it?

January 20, 2011

10110111

Lab Rat
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Ah, understood. Didn’t notice QPixmap::ExplicitlyShared first. Thanks and sorry for previous message :).

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January 19, 2011