<pre>Hello,<br>Can't you use gtk.Layout to pack widgets into a drawable area?<br><br>I'm trying to do something similar, with mixed success so far.<br><br>-Natan<br>2007/12/15, Donn <<a href="http://lists.cairographics.org/mailman/listinfo/cairo">donn.ingle at gmail.com</a>>:<br>
><i> Hi,<br></i>><i> Is there any way to "house" a GTK widget (say a button, or a text entry<br></i>><i> field) within a GDK DrawingArea (for which I can get a cairo context)?<br></i><br>A DrawingArea isn't a container, so not really (at the moment at<br>
least). However, if you take a dip and learn how to write a container<br>in GTK (it's not really that difficult, though it requires to learn<br>how the widget system works), it's possible to write a canvas widget<br>
that contains the other widgets...<br><br>><i> I want to see if I can mix-in some GTK widgets and place them on the canvas. I<br></i>><i> am aiming at having them obey the matrix of the current context, so they can<br>
</i>><i> scale and rotate etc.<br></i><br>...though to get this far you'll either have to do uglish things to<br>acquire the widget's drawing or wait for the offscreen rendering patch<br>to be in a GTK+ release to do it properly. And even after that, you'll<br>
get the input problem, ie. you need to transform also the input events<br>(mouse clicks etc) for the widgets...<br><br>><i> Any hope?<br></i><br>Hope: yes, practical implementation: at least not yet, unfortunately.<br>
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