I'm busy developing a cool new drawing tool for Inkscape (one that I've been dying to implement since using Inkscape ), the core is pretty much finished, but I'm running into a bug which can be resolved by implementing a feature of the tool that I have no clue on how to achieve .

My tool creates a GrayMap when the mouse button is pressed, updates it as the mouse is moved then processes and destroys it when the mouse button is released. I need to be able to show the GrayMap, any other kind of bitmap will do, on the canvas and then hide it when not used.

How can I do this? I've been looking around and I can't find any examples in the existing code that does something like it.

I'd really appreciate any help guys.

Thank you.

You'll be more likely to get an answer to this question if you ask on the developers mailing list - http://www.inkscape.org/mailing_lists.php?lang=en

Thanks microUgly, I'll do that too