Sorry, I accidentally sent this off of the list. The original email is below.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: natan yellin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 3:47 PM Subject: Re: (Gtkmm) How to use Gdk::Window in Gtk::DrawingArea To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is also doable with Cairo. You can create a cairo context for the DrawingArea's GdkWindow and then draw onto that. Natan On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Paul Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 15:53 +0800, Dinh Khac Thanh wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I am porting a program from Qt to Gtkmm and needs to draw some > > "items"(basically a "item" contains an icon, a label and some other > > small details) on a drawing area. In the Qt source, it is implemented > > like this: each "item" inherited from CanvasRectangle and then will be > > put on a Canvas. However I got trouble implementing in gtkmm. > > > > I decided to use a Gtk::DrawingArea widget as the canvas and > > Gdk::Window as the items and then use draw_pixmap() to put them on the > > canvas. I made up a "item" class which inherits from Gdk::Window and > > contains method to draw icon/text/etc on itself. The problem arises > > when Gdk::Window's constructor is called. I cannot find Gdk::Window's > > constructor details in the gtkmm online reference, thus I cannot > > implement the "item"'s constructor. > > > > Could anyone help me with Gdk::Window 's constructor details or > > suggest a different approach ? Thank you in advance. > > use GnomeCanvas, not DrawingArea. despite its name, its not part of > Gnome. there is a *mm wrapper for it. you will save yourself significant > work. > > --p > > > > _______________________________________________ > gtk-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list >
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