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

[Doug South <dsouth squirrel net>]

Matt Kimball wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Apr 24, 1998 at 05:35:05AM +0000, Doug South wrote:
> > 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).
> 
> Look at the GtkFixed widget.  (See gtk/gtkfixed.h).

YES! Took me a little while, but I got it. Not bad considering I just
started using this library yesterday. I imagine it says more for GTK
than it does for my programming skills. 8)

Unfortunately, for this task at least, I've spent the last two years
doing nothing but Java. Took me a day or two to get my C cap back on. I
looked at gtkfixed, but I couldn't work out WHAT it was. Then I spent
some time looking at the hierarchy in part 5 of the tute. I still didn't
get it. Then, FINALLY, I worked out that I needed to put my widget in a
fixed widget and display that in a window! Thanks again Matt. I off to
implement the native Java class for Japhar...

Regards,
Doug
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