Re: Tree Store for layers

[Ben Johnson <ben blarg net>]

On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 11:41:59AM -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 14:43 +0100, David Conley (FRD) wrote:
> > I'm hoping to use a tree store/view to create a layer typer system where 
> > the higher up the tree an object is, the closer to the front of the screen 
> > an object would be. Imagine the layers in Photoshop or GIMP for an idea 
> > what I mean. Is there any way I can get that kind of information from the 
> > widget? I'm using C++ if it makes any difference to the answer.
> > So to recap I'd like to get a value that says:
> 
> GTK has no concept of 2 widgets existing in the same location, and hence
> no real notion of layering. There are specific widgets, such as the
> canvas, that do support layering, but you could not get the layer
> information from widgets that are layered, only from the canvas items
> that "hold" them.

The closest thing I can think of to use would be a notebook widget,
maybe without tabs.  it would be cool to someday make one widget stick
to many pages...  or to have it visible and accessible *through* many
pages.

- Ben