Re: Widgets inside a GtkDrawingArea

[Olexiy Avramchenko <aolexiy gmail com>]

Sander Marechal wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am writing a hearts game for GNOME using glade and the libglade XML 
> loader. The main playing area is a big GtkDrawingArea. I need to add a 
> button in the middle of the drawing area during the beginning of the 
> game (when you are passing cards to another player). This button needs 
> to disappear during the main play.
>
> Is there a way to add a button inside (or on top) a GtkDrawingArea using 
> glade? Or using Gtk directly in C? Glade wouldn't let me add one. If it 
> isn't possible, is there an easy way I can "fake" the effect of a button 
> sitting in the middle of the drawing area?
>
> This is my first Gtk application (heck it's my first app since I moved 
> away from the Win32 platform) so I'm not terribly experienced yet.
Hi,
You can't add a children widget to drawing area (it's not so easy, at 
least). Take a look at GtkLayout instead of GtkDrawingArea. This widget 
provides a window GtkLayout::bin_window that can be used for custom 
drawing like GtkDrawingArea and also it is a container like GtkFixed.

http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkLayout.html

        Olexiy