Re: [gtk-list] Newbie with some low level questions

[fractture <fract sprintmail com>]

Doug South wrote:

> I just started looking at GTK recently. The tutorial is good, but I
> really what to do more low level stuff.
>
> What I'd like to be able to do is to place widgets in containers without
> any sort of window management happening. I'd like to be able to position
> the widgets within the containers and to control the widgets size. I'm
> not worried about what happens when the container resizes (though I'd be
> interested in getting a signal when it happens). I'd also would like to
> get the graphics context of particular widgets so that I can draw basic
> shapes on the widgets.
>
> I am currently trawling my way through the source, but any help at all
> would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Doug South
>

Have you looked at the rest of the Gtk docs?There is a toolkit description of
Gtk, Gdk and Glib, though they don't appear to be finnished.
You might find some of what you wanyt there though.