Any one? Any one? Bueller? On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 16:57 -0700, Andrew Shafer wrote: > Anyone have experience using gdk_window_set_child_shapes? or > (merge_child_shapes) > > I don't really understand how it works. > > The effect I want is to have a top level window without decorations that > appears to have a few sections (normal gtk widgets) that appear to float > around together. > > I apply gtk_widget_shape_combine_mask to the different and they look > good in the layout. > > I was hoping I could then call gdk_window_set_child_shapes is the gdk > window of the top level and everything would be great, but instead this > makes everything disappear. > > The application is running and if I run xwininfo, all the children > windows exist and have the proper dimension, but nothing appears on > screen. Further, if I iconify/deiconify (under Gnome) I see an outline > collapse into the taskbar. > > If I call gdk_window_set_child_shapes the behavior is also strange, now > the main window draws with a truncated rectangular version that cuts off > across the other sections. (xwininfo says the children still have their > original dimension) > > If I compose a bitmap mask of the exact dimension and placement of all > the widgets, then I can call gtk_widget_shape_combine_mask on the > toplevel and get the desired behavior. I want to avoid doing this > because it would be a royal pain to update the mask for any little > change. > > Any suggestions, ideas, or experience will be welcomed :) > > Regards, > > Andrew Shafer > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
