Application design problem

[Ivan Popivanov <popivan gmx net>]

Hi,

Here is an outline of the hierarchy design that I came up with for my 
application:

Main Window: GtkWindow: main application window
  GtkVBox: to hold the menu, toolbar, application client area
     Client Area: not sure about the type of this object, see below
        GtkFixed: to manage the coordinate of few widgets that will be 
needed in the client area
           MyObjects: see below

For the client area I need something that I can draw on. My first 
thought was GtkDrawingArea, however, I run into problems when I tried to 
attach the GtkFixed child. GtkDrawingArea is not a container right? Then 
I tried GtkWindow and it didn't work either (the name is kind of 
misleading, isn't it). At the end I decided that probably the best match 
is GtkBin, the reason, the client area is going to have a single child, 
namely the GtkFixed.

My objects I created as GtkMisc (after few other tries), because I want 
them to be window less, like GtkLabel. I added function members to 
handle EXPOSE events.

THE PROBLEM is that I receive the expose event in the Client Area, so I 
can draw the background etc, however, I don't get any expose events in 
MyObjects. They are on the top of the client area, but they don't 
receive any draw messages.

One more thing, I'm using gtkmm, that's why I didn't attach the code. 
However, I don't think that's gtkmm issue.

Any idea/explanation about event propagation in Gtk?

TIA,

Ivan