Re: Eventifying a pixmap...

[Ole Laursen <olau hardworking dk>]

>     I'd like to make a pixmap emit signals... I read on HP's book that,
> being a widget without a window, it can't. I remember I've read somewhere
> that there is a widget that can be used as a container, to show the inner
> no-window widget, and providing a signal emitter... but I can't find out
> what was this widget... or maybe I've been dreaming of it... ;)

I've never actually used this but in the GTK+ reference documentation
(available on for instance www.gtk.org), there is something called an
eventbox:

  GtkEventBox - a widget used to catch events for widgets which do not
  have their own window.

-- 
Ole Laursen 
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