Re: spurious text

[Damon Chaplin <damon karuna eclipse co uk>]

On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 21:27 +1000, Richard Gipps wrote:
> Hi,
>     I have created several of my own Canvas Items which are based very 
> heavily on GooCanvasRectModel. I have used these items in a 
> GooCanvasTable. I recently added some text to these canvas items using 
> the "Toy" text API in Cairo and functions such as  cairo_show_text(). 
> This worked well and would render as I expected.  The problem comes when 
> one moves the mouse over/into the table items containing the text. When 
> this happens some spurious text is rendered outside the table area. This 
> problem is best illustrated using the picture I have attached. The R1 to 
> the far left is the spurious text. I have drawn rectangles around the 
> canvas items for clarity.
> 
> One can cover the canvas and expose it again and this text "disappears" 
> but as soon as the mouse is moved over the canvas item the spurious text 
> is drawn again.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas?

It sounds like a problem positioning the text. Maybe in your code or in
GooCanvasTable.

If you want to send me a test app I'll have a look at it.

Damon