Hi All, I'm looking at various possibilities of using gtk for implementing a complex bit of functionality in a video player. Here is my requirement. I have a drawing area which will be used to play a video using gstreamer. Now I need to overlay a few gtk widgets on top of this drawingarea. The number of widgets which will get overlayed is not known and could be anywhere from 3-5 at any point of time based on the operation of the program. A good to have feature would be alpha-blending wherein there is tranlucency of the overlayed widgets so that the underlying video (drawing area) can be seen. I looked around and got a few options which I yet to try out. Thought I will get advice here before I start the implementation. * Gnome Canvas looks like the best bet though I haven''t looked at it in detail. I add a drawing area to the canvas and add the widgets accordingly. is that possible ? * GtkLayout : had a look at this and read somewhere in the mail archives that z-ordering is not possible in gtklayout. This means I cannot use it for my need, right ? * Write a custom Gtk widget which will allow me to do the above functionality. Comments on which is the best mode of implementation would be helpful. Also is there any application which does this ? I know a bunch of applications which use osd (or gnome-osd) to overlay text over applications but I need something wherein the overlayed "text" can be interacted with (radiobuttons, menus etc) hence thought of overlaying widgets. Thanks, -Toufeeq -- blog @ http://www.toufeeq.net _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
