Re: tutorial on gnome canvas?

["J.W. Bizzaro" <bizzaro geoserve net>]

"Christopher T. Lansdown" wrote:
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>         *What's the best way to get a repeating background.

Do you mean a pixmap-tiled background?  Requests for this keep popping up. 
Hopefully someone will write a canvas item to do this, but it doesn't exist
now.

>         *Is it more efficient to stick all of the widgets on to a very large
> canvas and let the canvas draw what is appropriate or to remove them.

As opposed to...multiple canvases?

Jeff