Re: Future of Canvas on GTK+ (and probably GNOME)

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw netspace net au>]

Fabr�o Barros Cabral wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 15:21 -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
>
> > An important question is what a canvas widget is for. In the GNOME 1.x
> > days, GnomeCanvas was used to implement a lot of custom widgets.
> > However, in GNOME 2.x that is very uncommon; because of accessibility
> > concerns and because GTK+ itself provides anti-flicker capabilities.
>
> Basically, I think, a canvas widget allows a customized drawing. For
> example, imagine that I want to make a program which draw polygons. How
> can I do it with GNOME 2.x *without* using an especialized (external)
> widget, like libgnomecanvas?

Draw it on a GtkDrawingArea.