Re: Using libglademm with custom widgets

["Damon Oberholster" <damon websurfer co za>]

Hi again

I ran into a bit of trouble though. 
 
What exactly is DrawingArea supposed to do? I was expecting
to be able to say something like:
myDrawingArea->draw_arc(....); but when I looked at the
reference for it, there don't seem to be any drawing
related functions. 

> Yes, or you could derive from Gtk::Widget instead of
> Gtk::DrawingArea.

I'm still not sure I understand all this properly. I
originally derived from drawingArea because I can easily
add a DrawingArea widget to a window using glade. If I
derive from the Gtk:Widget class, what would I put into the
window when using the glade interface? Can I add any widget
(like say...a vbox) and just treat it as a general widget?

Hope I'm making some sense, because I'm quite confused.
Thanks
Damon

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