canvas + widgets

[Damon Chaplin <damon karuna uklinux net>]

Hi,

One of the main missing pieces of my GooCanvas widget is support for
embedded widgets (especially a GtkTextView).

I know Alex worked on offscreen rendering of widgets a while back. Is
there any code available for that?

To be honest, that sounds pretty difficult to me (especially trying to
add support for things like event-handling, drag-and-drop etc.).

Another option is to write new canvas items like buttons & combos
instead (like we have various renderers for GtkTreeView). (Obviously
porting GtkTextView won't be much fun though!)

So I'm not sure which way to go. Thoughts?

Damon

(PS. I'll release GooCanvas 0.3 as soon as my ISP sorts out its ftp.)