Re: Place an widget or image on top of an image!?

[Keith Sharp <kms passback co uk>]

On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 02:17, JOSE PEDRO SERGIO ROMAO MACHADO wrote:
> I there!
>
> I need to do some software that represents an Controling 
> System of a House.
>
> I have to put an top side image of the house an some leds 
> on each division, like green the room is empty, red room 
> is not empty...
>
> My problem is that, unlyke QT, GTK+ doesn't seem to have 
> the Z coordinate.. that sets the deep of an widget.. so 
> you can place widget on top of each other...
>
> Any sugestions??? 

You might want to look at one of the canvas widgets, eg gnomecanvas, I
think they will allow you to do this.

For gnomecanvas look at:

  http://developer.gnome.org/doc/books/WGA/gnome-canvas.html

It covers version 1.x, but it is generally applicable to 2.x as well.

Keith.