Hello, So far I have been doing that without any problems. I have a class hierarchy where the derived classes creates Cairo::Context of a Gdk::Window and pass it to the base class without any problem. Clipping may be the only thing u need to worry about. Yo clip in one function, make sure that u reset_clip in the same function (nothing wrong if you start with a reset_clip in the begining of a function), but I say let each function clean its own mess!!! and I didnt understand the concept of "half sized context". May be what you need is a Cairo::Context for the window and clip a region within it. <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 11:40 AM, abhidhnya sonawane <<a href="mailto:abhidhnya.sonawane@gmail.com">abhidhnya.sonawane@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi, This is my first post here... Also I am new to cairo, so if the questions are very simple (silly ) please do consider... I want to know if I can have multiple cairo context in one program ,like for example if I create two new context in one function and use it in some other function to get a context of half its size..will this work? Also I need to have multiple context or multiple surfaces? I mean I can use context created in one function in other functions or should I use surfaces. Please do reply, Thanks. _______________________________________________ cairo mailing list <a href="mailto:cairo@cairographics.org">cairo@cairographics.org</a> <a href="http://lists.cairographics.org/mailman/listinfo/cairo" target="_blank">http://lists.cairographics.org/mailman/listinfo/cairo</a> </blockquote></div>