[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: SWT on an offscreen buffer ?

["Steve Northover" <steve_northover@xxxxxxxxxx>]

You can create Images and draw to them using GC's then draw the Image to the
screen.  Not sure this is what you mean.

"Yarden Livnat" <yarden@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:yarden-EBD168.21421626042005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Is there a way to make an SWT widget render itself to an offscreen
> buffer (pbuffer) instead of a window on the screen (i.e., the
> backbuffer) ? In particular I want to be able merge this offscreen
> buffer into an OpenGL one, thus embedding SWT widgets into my OpenGL
> window (under SWT of course) possibly using transparency etc...
>
> thanks,
>
>    Yarden