Re: How to show the same widget in several containers

["Juan Antonio Alvarez" <jualvarez gmail com>]

Richard, thanks for the reply, maybe I wasn't so clear, or I'm not
fully understanding your sugestion.

On 3/7/07, Richard Boaz <riboaz xs4all nl> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Gtk+ explicitly disallows child widgets being parented more than
> once, for good reason.
>
> Make four individual display widgets, and make one pixmap/pixbuf/
> whatever to contain the picture.  When you make your picture,
> explicitly draw it to each of your display widgets; there is nothing
> wrong with displaying the same image more than once...

The thing is that I don't know how to get a picture out of my
widget... Is there any function that allow me to do this? or it should
be implemented in the specific widget?

> richard
>
> On Mar 7, 2007, at 4:21 PM, Juan Antonio Alvarez wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm building an application where I show some plots using gtk-extra
> >
> > I'd like to show the same plots on four different viewports, so the
> > user can scroll to the plots he's interested in, and see them
> > simultaneously.
> >
> > It really doesn't have to be the same widget, maybe just a pixbuf of
> > the first, and the copies get updated when the main one does.
> >
> > Was I clear? Can this be done?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Juan
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Thanks a lot,

Juan