[Gtk-sharp-list] Gtk.Image "refresh" image area
Mauricio Henriquez
mhenriquezs at terra.cl
Tue Apr 15 11:20:47 EDT 2008
Hi Guys:
My name is Mauricio and this is my first post to the list, so hi to all!!.
I'm playing around a lot with the Gtk.Image + Pixmap and Pixbuf types
in mono/gtk-sharp to build a VideoPlayer widget with the ISE.Video
library from the Icarus project (http://icarus.sourceforge.net/), but
now I'm a little confuse about the pixmap and pixbuf and convertions
between both and also about the gtk.image :-S , let me explain the
situation and please be pattience with my poor English:
The ise.video library works as a wrapper for Tao.FFmpeg and let us to
work with a "Decoder" that can be used to decode a video file, images
from URLs or even from v4l source, the ise.video library expose a number
of "video handlers" for different scenarios, like a "texture" one to be
used in opengl scenes, a "Bitmap handler" to work in winforms scenarios
(I allready have a primary working version of the videoplayer for
WinForms and run nice in mono/linux in a winform app showing videos and
also my webcam!!, very cool!!), and also a "Pixbuf handler" to use in
Gtk# scenarios. Right now I have a simple "pixbuf handler" in a Gtk# app
with a Gtk.Image widget, this example app is capable of show a video
file or a v4l source in a gtk.image widget allmost without problems...
Rigth now, the idea is have a custom widget capable of do all the needed
configuration "internally" (decoder configuration, etc..), for the
winform videoplayer version we do that creating a class the inherit from
a simple PictureBox control, so the idea is to do something simillar
here (I know that may be you are goin to recomned to use some kind of
opengl widget for intensive graphic things, but the current state of
gtkopenglarea is not somehting that we whant right now and can be used
in a "version 2" of the gtk-videoplayer).
My problem right now is that I have a VideoPlayer class that inherit
from Gtk.Image and add a public "Play" method, the "play" method do all
the configuration needed by the decoder and begin the "frame reading
loop" (I know that I can have problems related to block the main gtk app
loop, but right now that is my second concern :-) , then in each
"reading" the "Pixbuf handler" return a updated "frame" (of pixbuf type)
and I need to set the "frame" to the internall Pixbuf member of the
widget, I do that with a simple: this.Pixbuf = PixbufHandler.frame; but
then I need to force for a "update" or "refresh" of the widget to
actually see the image displayed and that is the beggining of my
problems. How can I do that in a simple way?
Previously in the simple pixbuf handler test (the one with a simple
gtk.image widget in a gtk# window) I be able to call to the
this.GdkWindow.ProcessUpdates(true); becouse the gtk.image was in the
gtk# window, so calling to the ProcessUpdates refresh all the childs and
with that all OK...but right now is more dificult to me, becouse inside
my custom widget the GdkWindow return "null" (I don't know way...). I
also try with the this.QueueDrawArea(0, 0, 800, 340); inside my custom
widget but to work witht the "Queue" methods I need to also use the
Configure and Expose events and that force me to do some type
convertions between PixBuf and pixmap...and is kind of confuse to me, so
probably exist a more "direct"way to update the widget screen...I also
try to inherit from the DrawingArea widget but also force me to do some
convertions...
Sorry for the long explanation but i think that is needed to understed
what I'm trying to do..
Any sugestion is apreciated...
In advance thank you..
Mauricio
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