Re: scrolling and child widgets

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

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Robert Roebling <roebling@ruf.uni-freiburg.de> writes:

> > for the Mnemonic browser, we have been reasonably successful using a
> > Gtk_Layout widget with a background pixmap attached to it.
> 
> Do you have the X window limit or not? I assume you have, so that
> very long pages won't get displayed correctly. Also, do you mean
> you use a pixmap for double buffering (which I don't want to do)?

No, GtkLayout does not have the X limit. (It uses a scrolling
technique borrowed from the class Netscape code)
 
> > the source throuh http://www.mnemonic.org
> 
> I'll have a look.
> 
> BTW, does someone know, if the GnomeCanvas has the X window limitation?

No, it derives from GtkLayout.
 
                                        Owen