On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 22:36 +0100, James Morris wrote: > On 7 July 2010 17:34, Staffan Gimåker <staf...@gimaker.se> wrote: > > Is there a particular reason that you need a custom widget? Can you not > > just use a GtkDrawingArea and use Cairo to draw things in it? > > That's the thing I'm unsure of, when to use a GtkDrawingArea and when > to use a custom widget.
If it's something you use over and over again in different places of your app it's a good custom widget candidate. E.g. if you need lots of "knob" widgets for your hypothetical DJ mixer app. As long as the standard widgets suffice, you should avoid it. /Staffan
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