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In building a recent Windows version of Xournal under the latest GTK
win32, I have run into difficulties rendering cursors due to the
following errors:

(xournal.exe:3512): Gdk-WARNING **: gdkdrawable-win32.c:711: MaskBlt
failed: The operation completed successfully.
(xournal.exe:3512): Gdk-WARNING **: gdkdrawable-win32.c:714:
SelectObject failed: The operation completed successfully.

The code that renders cursors uses a GdkGC to draw a bitmapped cursor
onto a pixmap like so:
gdk_gc_set_stipple(gc, source);
gdk_gc_set_clip_mask(gc, mask);
gdk_draw_rectangle(rgb_pixmap, gc, TRUE, 0, 0, width, height);

The errors above appear during a call to gdk_draw_rectangle.

The code I am working with was last known to compile (with win32)
under GTK 2.16.5

Incidentally, that code itself is a workaround to deal with GTK bug
541377 (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=541377).

I have no previous experience dealing with cursors in GTK, so I am
stuck at the moment. Could someone point me to a way of rendering cursors from bitmaps that would work under Win32? The docs for most of the GdkGC functions say that they are deprecated in favor of Cairo; is there a way to use some Cairo functions to do the cursor rendering?

--Leo

Yes these have been depreciated and you would be much better using cairo (because its also been so long depreciated, a lot of new users on this forum would have no knowledge of gdk's drawing and you'll find more support for any problems you'll run into using cairo). You'll find the documentation and examples at http://www.cairographics.org though they're not quite as good as the gtk resources. There's also a tutorial on using cairo to render customised widgets on the gtk site.
I have no idea what stipple is so can't help you in translating, but it sounds like an easy enough job to mask a cursor onto a bitmap.