On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 19:27 +0530, Toufeeq Hussain wrote: > 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 ? you don't get alpha blending in a canvas that supports widgets. they are mutually exclusive: you can get an AA canvas that does alpha blending of objects or a non-AA canvas that allows z-order stacking of widgets. what you are looking for is basically the "holy grail" or "achilles heel", depending on your viewpoint, of most modern X toolkits. don't think that its just just a google search away - it isn't. maybe next year, maybe the year after, but not 2006. or maybe i am just wrong :) --p _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
