Does somebody know what all these image/pixmap classes are?
GTK and GDK offer a number of classes that support drawing images. • GdkPixbuf: a client-side object that holds an image. The pixbuf is merely a holder for image data, which allows you to manipulate it, but has no facilities for rendering (being a client-side object, this is quite obvious). • GdkPixmap: a X server object that contains an image. Can not be rendered in itself, even though the image is stored on the server. Manipulating a GdkPixmap is slower than a pixbuf mainly because of the communication roundtrip with the server. • GdkDrawable: any X server object you can draw to, i.e. a GdkWindow or a GdkPixmap. A reference of the Drawable API is at [www.pygtk.org] • GtkImage: a GTK widget that renders an image based on a Pixmap or Pixbuf. The GtkImage differs from a regular Drawable in the sense that it implements an expose-event handler that takes care of redrawing its contents (based on its pixbuf or pixmap) when necessary. When using a Drawable (such as the DrawingArea) it is nec
