Re: A few gtk questions

[Dave Swegen <dave recursive prestel co uk>]

On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 16:18 -0600, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Dave Swegen wrote:
> > 
> > 1) The main display will be a map of the world, with borders drawn on it.
> > This map should have clickable areas to select countries, and each country
> > should be able to be floodfilled. Is imlib appropriate for this, or are
> > there features of gtk I could use?
> >
> 
> imlib is for loading and displaying images, so it would be useful
> probably, if your countries are in .png format or the like.
> 
> I'd say GnomeCanvas will save you tons of time on this, and uses Imlib
> internally.  It's perfect for this kind of application; look at the demo
> in the gnome-libs/test-gnome/test-gnome program for an example of how it
> can handle images. 

Oh dear - my simple(ish) project just looks like it got a lot harder :( Is
there really no easy way in gtk in which to set up arbritary hotspots on a
pixmap? I don't particularly want to get into gnome quite yet (gtk is
enough for the time being :)

Cheers
	Dave

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Dave Swegen <dave@recursive.prestel.co.uk>
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