Re: How to get GtkWindow associed with XID?

[jacktm <jacktm o2 pl>]

Owen Taylor wrote:

> 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.
>  
Yes, that's what I need to do.

> 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
>  
But gdk_window_foreign_new wraps XID by GdkWindow.
What I need to do next is to wrap GdkWindow by GtkWindow.
Isn't it possible? It should be the same situation as
I have GdkWindow and I want to create GtkWidget as
child of GdkWindow. It should be possible, but it doesn't work
for me...

Thanks,
    Jack