From: Detlef Reichl Date: 2004-04-22T06:33:44+09:00 Subject: Re: Fox --> GTK ? On Mit, 2004-04-21 at 04:32 +0900, Hal Fulton wrote: > gabriele renzi wrote: > > il Wed, 21 Apr 2004 03:11:33 +0900, Hal Fulton > > ha scritto:: > > > > > > > >>I was discussing this with someone last night. A notebook is > >>inappropriate because the underlying metaphor is a bunch of small notes > >>on a bulletin board. > >> > >>These aren't open docs as such. They are tiny notes, perhaps up to 20 > >>or so visible at a time. > >> > >>I'm thinking of just having real windows for them, but I hate losing the > >>"containment" of the notes. > > > > > > I wonder if you could use some kind of Canvas for this. It seem better > > to me that plain windows.. > > I thought of something like that -- draw the little windows on a canvas, > and when you click on one to edit it, turn it into a "real" widget in > the same spot. > > It's kind of cheating, though. And it sounds computationally expensive. > And moving/resizing the notes would be a problem. > > Hal > > something like this i made in c some time ago with subclassing gtk:: layout. i had many smal windows which could be draged around and while gtk::layout is a subclass of gtk::conainer you could put in what you want. if you want i can look if i have some code snipets of it. cheers detlef > -- Wer f�r alles offen ist, kann nicht ganz dicht sein. <* ))))x<