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diff --git a/emptyPixmap.go b/emptyPixmap.go
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+package main
+
+import (
+	"github.com/mattn/go-gtk/gdk"
+)
+
+// emptyPixmap creates an empty pixmap.
+func emptyPixmap(w, h, depth int) *gdk.Pixmap {
+	// The underlying C function would create an empty, unbound pixmap, if the drawable paramater was a NULL pointer.
+	// Since simply passing a nil value would result in a panic (dereferencing a nil pointer), we use a new gdk.Drawable.
+	// gdk.Drawable contains a C pointer which is NULL by default. So passing a new(gdk.Drawable) does the trick.
+	return gdk.NewPixmap(new(gdk.Drawable), w, h, depth)
+}