Re: How to get GtkWindow associed with XID?

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 13:16 +0200, jacktm wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I need do get the GtkWidget associated with XID. I thought
> I can do it using gdk_window_foreign_new, but it doesn't
> work for me. I tried many things, after googling I found
> something like that:
>
>     GtkWidget *toplevel = gtk_window_new(GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL);
>     GdkWindow *gdk_win = gdk_window_foreign_new(xwin);
>     gtk_widget_set_parent_window(toplevel, gdk_win);
>     gtk_widget_show(toplevel);
>
> But it creates new window and everything paints in that.
> It looks like gtk_widget_set_parent_window doesn't work.
> What am I doing wrong? Why doesn't it work for me?

It's not clear what you are trying to do here. GtkWidgets 
create their own X windows .... you can't reuse an
existing one.

If you need to embed a GTK+ widget into a non-GTK+ 
application you'll need to implement the embedder side of 
the XEMBED protocol.

 http://www.freedesktop.org/Standards/xembed-spec

Regards,
                                        Owen