[cairo] gtk, cairo, surfaces and alpha

[Gerdus van Zyl]

Don't think that's possible, since get_target gets the surface gtk
creates in the background which doesn't have alpha. In that case I
can't think of any other solution than to render to your own image
surface.

On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Donn <donn.ingle at gmail.com> wrote:
>> tsurf = ctx.get_target() #get surface from context
>> tsurf.write_to_png("screen.png")
> This is great. One wrinkle: Is there any way to get alpha written out to the
> PNG? I would like transparent areas in the output -- in the window they would
> show as grey (the default window colour).
>
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