So what you probably want then is a views/NSView-like system for your
toolbar stack then? Does Gtk provide abstractions for this?

-Ben

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Evan Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Ben Goodger (Google) <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> Seems a shame to use one widget for all drawing since you're
>> effectively rebuilding views - the only reason we developed views on
>> windows is that there is no drawable widget API that can render
>> transparently over others.
>
> There's two layers to it: most widgets are just like views views and
> only live as a data structure in your program's memory.
> What James was proposing is making the tab-widgets into the equivalent
> of HWNDs, which are heavier on X but do handle hit testing and such.
>

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