> From: J. Davison de St. Germain [mailto:dav@xxxxxxxxxxx] > > use the GnomeCanvas, which has z-order stacking. its not so cool for > > widgets as it it for native canvas items, but it will work. > > My understanding is that this would require us to be dependent on yet > another library (libgnome? or some such) and to learn another API. libgnomecanvas. It's a small API-stable library. > Does the Gnome lib provide us with more then this ability; is it worth > using for other things (ie: what does it do for us over and beyond > direct GTK)? It does fancy shapes and fixed positioning and moving stuff around. The kind of thing that you would use in a vector drawing application or simple game. However, libgnomecanvas is less than perfect (see the archivs). There are other canvases that you might use instead, such as foocanvas. > Is the lack of z-order stacking for GTK widgets a bug, I think GTK+ is really for providing widgets, and I can't see a need to have one button half-way overlapping another button. > or a known issue, or something that the only fix is to use the Gnome > canvas? I assume that implementor of the Gnome canvas somehow "worked > around" the GTK problem. I think the canvas is meant to solve a different set of problems. Murray Cumming murrayc@xxxxxxx www.murrayc.com _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
