Re: scrolling and child widgets

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Robert Roebling wrote:
> > for the Mnemonic browser, we have been reasonably successful using a
> > Gtk_Layout widget with a background pixmap attached to it.
> 
> Do you have the X window limit or not? I assume you have, so that
> very long pages won't get displayed correctly. Also, do you mean
> you use a pixmap for double buffering (which I don't want to do)?
>

The purpose of GtkLayout is to avoid the X window problem; it was
originally written for Mozilla but now Mozilla is using some weird custom
solution.
 
> BTW, does someone know, if the GnomeCanvas has the X window limitation?
> 

It does not, because it's a GtkLayout subclass.

Havoc