Re: [gtkmm] Is it possible to add widgets to a drawingarea?

[Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com>]

>Joonas Kiviharju <satelliittipupu yahoo co uk> writes:
>
>> I've heard about GnomeCanvas, and that it's better
>> than a plain Gtk::DrawingArea, BUT isn't GnomeCanvas
>> platform dependant? It seems to me you can only use it
>> for Linux?
>
>http://web.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~s01397ms/cygwin/
>
>There's an older version listed here, for both X11 and Win32 GDK
>backends.  You can probably update the patch for the current version.

there is nothing X11 specific about the canvas. it uses either regular
widgets or items drawn using libart_lgpl, which in turns renders to a
simple RGB(A) buffer that is then blitted into a pixmap and then the
screen. 

--p