I'm worried that all the "canvas" offerings do not provide extensible drawable classes, as GDK seems to have built-in support for, but as I said, I can't find any documentation for this :( On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Paul Davis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 01:05 -0400, Donny Viszneki wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Certain parts of my application's GUI contain logical widget-like > > components, but which are different from GTK widgets (or my limited > > understanding of them) in that they do not fit well into a > > hierarchical model for several reasons: > > > > - Widget positioning is totally independent of the positions of other widgets > > - Widgets may overlap each other and are transluscent > > - Notional "space" within my GtkDrawingArea widget is also an > > interactive GUI component > > you are looking for a "Canvas" widget. > > unfortunately the state of things in GTK is such that you have to choose > from one of several possible canvas widgets, all with their own benefits > and drawbacks. > > here is a reasonably informative and accurate comparison: > > http://live.gnome.org/ProjectRidley/CanvasOverview > > but please, do NOT start another canvas widget. > > -- http://www.socsurveys.org/ http://blogger.socsurveys.org/ http://del.icio.us/hdon http://hdon.soup.io/ _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
