Re: How to stack widgets or GtkFixed doesn't seem to work well for stacking

["John Cupitt" <jcupitt gmail com>]

On 5/11/06, Sean Kelley <sean sweng gmail com> wrote:
> It appers that GtkFixed is not really designed for stacking widgets as
> it does not have
> a concept of a z-axis. What gets drawn on top is purely a matter of what
> child comes last when drawing, and a similar story is with input.

GTK does not have stacking. Perhaps one of the newer canvas widgets
will allow something a bit like this, but for now, it's not supported,
AFAIK.

You can sort-of fake stacking if you put each child widget of the
fixed inside an eventbox. At least with the X and windows backends
this will pretty much work (by accident, really). You do pop-to-front
by reffing the child, removing it from the fixed, adding it again, and
unreffing it.

John