Re: Custom widget children not shown

[Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com>]

On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Kees Kling <ckling upcmail nl> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2 weeks ago I wrote a mail about custom widgets, but till now nobody reacted
> on it , so I try again
>
> I want to make a custom widget which has several  standard  widgets as
> child,  like  butoons labels, etc. First I did it on the standard way,
> deribing from a Gtk:;Frame and adding the widgets to the frame and that is
> working pretty well. But I wnat to give the user the abillity to move the
> set of widgets around and I got the Idea to give the widget its own
> Gdk::Window

you need a Canvas widget, and specifically one that supports embedded widgets.

there are no good choices. this page provides an overview:

http://live.gnome.org/ProjectRidley

don't try to do this yourself.