I'm building a form designer application and need to draw a "grab" border around widgets when the user selects them. This part seems straight forward and I've already got the border drawing working from the expose event. My question is how do do this in an efficient manner since GCs seem to be tied to windows.
Currently I'm just building and destroying a new GC each time the expose() event fires. I know this isn't efficient at all, and I only did it this was to test that I could actually draw a border. GCs are tied to windows, so it would seem I'll need a GC for each widget on my form or can I have one GC and use it for all the widgets? I guess I'm asking what sort of overhead is involved in: 1) Creating a GC 2) Destroying a GC 3) Switching the window a GC is connected to 4) Memory overhead of each GC Thanks for any help or suggestions. _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
