Re: Drawing area feature?

[jrb redhat com]

frankc srv net writes:

> What about creating a widget
> that appears as a line or a pixel?
> I am going to have to create a
> drawing program soon and was
> thinking about creating widgets
> that are based on graphic funda-
> mentals (lines, pixels, etc...).
> Anybody have a take on this?

Widgets aren't meant for drawing, and I think you'd find that such a
design wouldn't work very well.  Perhaps you'd be more interested in
something like the GnomeCanvas, which has canvas items for structured
graphics.

More info can be found at:
        http://developer.gnome.org/doc/whitepapers/canvas/canvas.html
and at:
        http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/libgnomeui/gnomecanvas.html

Good Luck!
-Jonathan