Hello, I am *really* new to GTK and company and I am snowed-under by the bewildering array of classes. For example, I really can't figure out how to look for the classes I need, they all sort of look the same!
I am reading the main tutorial, but the way I work is to aim for something: I want to put custom widgets (drawn by cairo calls) onto a vast, endless, plane at arbitrary x,y positions. (I am probably my own worst enemy.) As a starting point, I am just trying to get two widgets onto a single window, but--oh, man--am I ever not getting anywhere. Eventually I want this to be dragged around and zoomed etc. Like Inkscape for example. I also want the widgets to have a "life" in that they can move, react, signal and be animated. I also want each widget to be able to contain other widgets -- very much like what happens in flash/swf. I *think* the term for all this is a "canvas". I have a problem in that my system is Kubuntu Dapper and I just cannot get GTK+ > 2.8 installed. (I have tried compiling from sources, but that was simply too confusing for me.) So, I can't use hippo canvas or any of the other stuff that's GTK+ 2.10 I have managed to get the latest cairo and pycairo installed from source. I realize this post opens a lot of questions, but has anyone a few tips on how I can start? Any pointers to basic concepts? /d -- He couldn't ad-lib a fart after a baked-bean dinner. -- Johnny Carson (about Chevy Chase) _______________________________________________ pygtk mailing list [email protected] http://www.daa.com.au/mailman/listinfo/pygtk Read the PyGTK FAQ: http://www.async.com.br/faq/pygtk/
