What you've described is roughly how windowless plugins work. Have you considered just making a plugin?
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Gecko_Plugin_API_Reference On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Daniel Campos <dcamp...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all: > > I've been using webkit-gtk for a while and I was wondering whether there > might be a method to do custom draw on a chosen node, let's say a DIV, for > instance, or any other element. The idea would be something that allows me > to receive the cairo context and the surface and be able to draw there by > following the order in which elements are redrawn, that is, receiving an > event while webkit-gtk is redrawing the surface before other elements in > upper layers are drawn (z-index). > > I tried to use the "create-plugin-widget" signal with a custom object as a > workaround, but unfortunately the widget is placed on top of everything > drawn by webkit-gtk, so I can not fulfill my need of having my custom > element in a certain layer, with other elements over it. > > I looked for all the documentation available in the webkit-gtk place plus > the one by Apple and even the source headers, but I was unlucky. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks in advance > > Daniel > > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-gtk mailing list > webkit-gtk@lists.webkit.org > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-gtk > >
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