Re: Event triggering with primitives

[Roger Leigh <rleigh whinlatter ukfsn org>]

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Catherine Dunn <cldunn MIT EDU> writes:

> I am new to GTK. I am trying to create an application with several primitives
> drawn in a drawing area. I would like certain events to occur whenever the user
> clicks on/rolls over the primitives, but I am having trouble doing this since
> the primitive functions return void not GtkWidget. I'd appreciate some advice.

You might find the Gnome Canvas better than a drawing area for this
task.  The items placed on the canvas can emit events in the same way
as widgets, making it clean and simple to implement.


Regards,
Roger

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