Re: Parbox

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Hans Petter Jansson wrote:
> 
> If not, I'm wondering if it would be technically possible (not too slow using
> the GTK widget paradigm) to make such a container holding possibly a
> tremendous number of children - words in a text processor, pixmaps in a
> file/picture browser, misc. widgets in a programmer interface, etc.
> 

You really can't use a widget for every word in a document - widgets
aren't _huge_ objects but they aren't insignificant in size either, and
the time to create lots of GtkObjects can add up after a while. You
probably don't want to use widgets for this.

Havoc