On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 03:09:33PM +0200, Daniel Haude wrote: > this is really odd. Some time ago I spent about a week creating a custom > widget (stuff gets drawn directly into the widgets's window using GDK > primitives). All works quite well. > > It's only now that I realized that I hadn't even used a GtkDrawingArea for > the purpose. I must have forgotten. So my puzzlement is evident from the > Subject line: if I can do all that stuff without using a dedicated > GtkDrawingArea, what is it good for?
It can handle realize and configure events. So it is useful for quick and dirty custom display `widgets' when one creates a GtkDrawingArea, connects something to "expose-event" and that's it. Of course, if you make a real widget (with its own class and everything) it makes little sense to base it on GtkDrawingArea instead of GtkWidget (or other suitable parent). Yeti -- Anonyms eat their boogers. _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
