Hi Thomas, the first thing that is wrong is that the parent of "frame" should be "main" and not the root window. Next is that ~ is not expanded by CreatePictureFromFile(). Use first gSystem->ExpandPathName() to get the full pathname. Cheers, Fons. On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 12:00, Thomas Bretz wrote: > Hi, > > what's wrong with the macro below? CreatePictureFromFile already > fails... > Reading the same file into the TGPicturePool works, but that's nothing > which will help (but tells us, that the file is ok) > > I'm using root 3.02/07. It did somthing similar with 2.25 (I read the > file by myself and used CreatePictureFromData instead) and this worked. > In 3.00 and 3.01 I got some massages about a 'Bad Window' or similar, > now it simply doesn't do anything and CreatePictureFromData return with > kTRUE. > > Thomas. > ---- > > void test() > { > TGMainFrame *main=new TGMainFrame(gClient->GetRoot(), 200, 200); > TGFrame *frame=new TGFrame(gClient->GetRoot(), 150, 150); > > main->AddFrame(frame); > frame->Move(10, 10); > > main->MapSubwindows(); > main->MapWindow(); > > Pixmap_t fPixmap=kNone; > Pixmap_t mask = kNone; > PictureAttributes_t attr; > memset(&attr, 0, sizeof(attr)); > > if (!gVirtualX->CreatePictureFromFile(frame->GetId(), "~/Mars/marslogo.xpm", > fPixmap, mask, attr)) > return; > > cout << "created." << endl; > > GContext_t fDefGC = gVirtualX->CreateGC(frame->GetId(), 0); // GetBckgndGC().GetGC(); // > gVirtualX->CopyArea(fPixmap, frame->GetId(), fDefGC, > 0, 0, 100, 100, 10, 10); > } -- Org: CERN, European Laboratory for Particle Physics. Mail: 1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland E-Mail: Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch Phone: +41 22 7679248 WWW: http://root.cern.ch/~rdm/ Fax: +41 22 7679480
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