Xrender related question

[Thomas Jaeger]

Alexei Babich wrote:
> Hello, all.
> 
> Having executed a piece of code listed below, I get a green window (as a result of calling XCreateSimpleWindow()) and a black rectangle on top of it (XRenderFillRectangle()). I still get just black, whatever color I set in the 'col' structure.
> XRenderFindVisualFormat() points to the data field shown on the screenshot attached to this letter. 
> Why doesn't the color of the rectangle depend on the 'col' parameters?
> 
> //some color
> col.red = 0;
> col.green = 127;
> col.blue = 250;
> col.alpha = 250;

XRender uses 16-bit colors.  If you multiply these numbers by 257 you
should be fine.  I would use 0xffff for the alpha value, though, if the
intention is to make the rectangle fully opaque.  Also, unless there is
a specific reason to use XRender directly, I would recommend using the
higher-level cairo library instead.