From: Yasushi Shoji <yashi@...>
Date: 2000-12-27T07:34:25+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:8098] Re: I ported my app from Tk to GTK

At Mon, 25 Dec 2000 08:46:09 +0900,
Kevin Smith wrote:

> >> 1. GTK does not require the distinction between 
> >> root and toplevel. 
> >
> >with X, it does.  You can't create Root window, but you can create
> >toplevel windows. dont' know about win32.
> 
> Oh. Well, in my little test, I'm creating two 
> windows with the TOPLEVEL flag, and everything 
> seems to be working fine. 

that's just two toplevel windows.  I poked around win32 portion of gdk
and seems like win version of gdk window also distinguish top level
windows and the root window.

take a look at around line 528 of gdkwindow-win32.c if you have cvs
version. (gdk_window_new())

or maybe it's just the difference of definition for the word
`toplevel' we use under tk and gtk?

> >hope this helps,
> 
> Thanks for your response. In case it wasn't 
> clear, I wasn't criticizing Ruby/GTK. As I have 
> said, I am quite happy with it. I just hoped to 
> help anyone else who was porting from Tk.

yup, so did I ;)
--
           yashi