beginner gtk

["Billy N. Patton" <bpatton dal asp ti com>]

I need to create an app that has a vertical menubar that
will produce a canvas as a seperate frame.  WHere the canvas that is
highlighted will be the focus of the menubar.

I've tried some of the other tool kits but the overhead of C++ is not
appealing for some of the data that I must display may sometime be
1+gig of data.  Within the next 2 years It will increase to @ 4gig
then I will have to go to 64bit.

THe packages I've tried are QT and wxWindows.  But I keep thingking
that all that fluff is not necessary.  I ned my graphics package
 to be as small as possible.


What I need to do for each canvas would be to create a bitmap
the size of the canvas (the size of the data would be impractical to
create it for that).  I will then shift the data drawn into the bitmap
instead of shifting the bitmap around the canvas.  I thing drawing
a bitmat with 2,000,000 rectangles and 1,000,000closed polygons would
not be practical.


Throughout all the blabber above here's what I need.
1. vertical menu bar
2. canvas in own frame
3. bitmaps drawn to be blit'd to canvas (for rubberbanding)
4. no rc files
5. canvas to be able to be resized. scale of data will have to be 
   readjusted.
6. several canvases to be displayed at once, but only one infocus


Is gtk the right choice?

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