On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 10:50:41AM +0100, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > >I thought even painting into a pixmap should only be done in a > >paintEvent(). The pixmap is located on the server side after all... > > I don't think so... or maybe I don't understand what you mean by "server > side".
The X server. A 'pixmap' is located on the X server, whereas an 'image' is located on the X client. So pixel manipulation is cheap on images, display is (reaonably) cheap for pixmaps. And I though (but am not sure) that one accesses the server only in paintEvents nowadays. Andre'
