On 7 July 2010 17:34, Staffan Gimåker <staf...@gimaker.se> wrote: > Is there a particular reason that you need a custom widget? Can you not > just use a GtkDrawingArea and use Cairo to draw things in it?
That's the thing I'm unsure of, when to use a GtkDrawingArea and when to use a custom widget. I've never required anything beyond the standard widgets before now. I'll look at the Cairo documentation. Cheers, James. > The official Cairo documentation (the tutorial is here: > http://cairographics.org/tutorial/) and the Gtk documentation are > probably good places to start. > > /Staffan > > On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 13:05 +0100, James Morris wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I need to create some complex widgets for my program. The first of >> which is the main widget which will show static rectangles within >> which other rectangles appear and disappear at musical rates (think >> fast electronic dance music rates). The static rectangles may overlap >> each other, but the other rectangles may not. >> >> I'm working in C. >> >> Can anyone recommend a good tutorial for this kind of thing? >> >> I've looked over http://zetcode.com/tutorials/cairographicstutorial/ >> but it doesn't explain much about creating custom widgets, nor am I >> sure if I should use Cairo or not. While I want the display to be >> colourful and attractive, I also want lightweight resource >> requirements and speed. >> >> Thanks, >> James. >> _______________________________________________ >> gtk-app-devel-list mailing list >> gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list > > _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
