Re: containers for containers

[Ephrem Boudonnet <Ephrem Boudonnet ircam fr>]

Vivien Malerba wrote:

Thanks for your help,
in fact my problem is that I need to find a container class that  could 
contain others containers of the same type AND  which positions and 
sizes could be specified  "manually" (i.e. without  following any 
predefined layout)
Is there such class of GTK object available? or an alternate way to do 
that.. ?

Ephrem



> The containers are meant to contain GtkWidget widgets and manage their
> relative positions and sizes depending on the kind of container (most
> of them ensure a good  usage of the allocated space to avoid having to
> set hard-coded widget dimensions as is too often the case for MS
> Windows applications). Containers are not meant to draw directly into
> them (to do this, use the GtkDrawingArea widget).
>
> If you want to test containers, have a look at the gtk-demo program,
> and the GTK+ tutorial.
>
> If you want to make the code for the example you mention, then use the
> GtkDrawingArea widget: create a main window, and put inside a
> GtkDrawingArea widget on which you can draw the rectangles using GDK
> (see the API documentation).
>
> Hope this helps you,
>
> Regards,
>
> Vivien
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