Re: gtk+2 drawing on top of widgets

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Dennis Bjorklund <db zigo dhs org> writes: 
> Yes, for the not double buffered case, this works. It paints over
> everything else. With double buffer there is clipping.
>

(The begin_paint_region() docs explain how the clipping works, which
might be useful info.)
 
> There is no way to get hold of the invalidation calls to the children? So
> I can invalidate the parent at the same time as the child is invalidated?
> It seems that this is what is needed.

I don't know of a way to do that, no.

Havoc