Which window widget to use?

[Rich Shepard <rshepard appl-ecosys com>]

  I'm porting a modeling system from Microsoft to linux and initially the
main UI will be a plain window on which the application writes output and
accepts input; the GUI equivalent of printf() and scanf().

  What's the widget I want to use in gtk+2? I see viewports and other such
widgets, but I really don't need dialog boxes (except, perhaps, for error
messages). Just a window to which I can write and read with a menu on top.

Thanks,

Rich

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