Re: gtk_paint_foo - GdkWindow or GdkDrawable?

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 10:45, muppet wrote:
> using custom GtkCellRenderers, and attempting to use a custom renderer in a
> reorderable TreeView, i've discovered that when the row is being dragged, that
> argument is a GdkDrawable (specifically, a GdkPixmap) rather than a GdkWindow.
> 
> the problem is that the gtk2-perl wrappers for the gtk_paint_foo() functions
> attempt to verify that the 'window' arg is actually a GdkWindow, since that's
> what the C call signature asks for.
> 
> however, from reading the source of gtk/gtkstyle.c, it appears that it's safe
> to have the wrappers accept any GdkDrawable rather than specifically
> GdkWindows.
> 
> is there any reason this is not true?

They should accept any GdkDrawable, though note that some themes have 
been historically buggy about this.

> if not, should i log that as an API bug?

Sure, go ahead. (It's not technically an API bug as we count API bugs,
since we consider changing a type to an identical typedef not an API
change)

Regards,
							Owen