XGetImage problem...

[Marcus Schäfer]

Hi,

> > I asume the data I got from the XGetWindowProperty() call is
> > far away from beeing a pixmap but it returend "Success"
> 
> That just means that it successfully retrieved the requested amount of
> data from the specified property. It doesn't imply that the data is
> "valid" in any way.

yes I understand
 
> Properties are simply lists of 8, 16, or 32-bit values, along with an
> associated type atom. When a property is set, nothing checks that the
> data actually conforms to the format implied by the type atom. The
> only type-checking involved is that XGetWindowProperty() will fail
> unless the req_type argument either matches the property's type atom
> or is AnyPropertyType.

yes I checked the type to be of type XA_PIXMAP which it was
but as you already said that's not a guarantee for a valid pixmap
data. Thanks for explaining 

Regards
Marcus
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