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

[Yarden Livnat <yarden@xxxxxxx>]

Not exactly, I want regular SWT widgets (buttons, sliders, etc) to be 
rendered to an off screen buffer...

thanks though,

   Yarden

In article <d4o4ok$u4k$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
 "Steve Northover" <steve_northover@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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