Re: GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS not working under Windows

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 13:21 +0100, Michael Goffioul wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 12:39 AM, Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 00:33 +0100, Michael Goffioul wrote:
> >> On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Tor Lillqvist <tml iki fi> wrote:
> >> > Currently, if you want a GTK+ on Windows where more complex things
> >> > like OpenGL might "work", to some degree, you should probably use GTK+
> >> > 2.16. The situation might improve in the future, or not.
> >>
> >> Even with 2.16, which is the version I was using initially, is there
> >> a way to make GTK+ widgets to appear on top of OpenGL area?
> >
> > no.
> 
> Do you mind if I ask why?
> 
> Is it:
> No, it's not supported yet.

no, it's not supported. and...

> No, that's by design.
> No, that's not possible under Windows.
> ...

... specifically: no, it's not possible in Window.

you could use the new OffscreenWindow support in gtk+ and then use the
GLX_texture_pixmap extension to upload the Pixmap on a GL texture - but
that requires GLX, hence X11.

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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