Re: GTK3 Emacs

[Jan Djärv]

2011-07-01 10:13, address@hidden skrev:
> Jan Djärv<address@hidden>  writes:
>
> > 2011-07-01 08:42, address@hidden skrev:
> > > Antoine Levitt<address@hidden>   writes:
> > >
> > > > 30/06/11 22:43, address@hidden
> > > > > I noticed that is now possible to compile Emacs with GTK3. It looks
> > > > > pretty good! Thanks guys!
> > > >
> > > > Does it actually change anything?
> > >
> > >
> > > Just the looks AFAICT. However, GTK3 has many differences at the API
> > > level. I noticed this by trying to convert my xwidget branch to GTK3 and
> > >
> > > I had to make many changes in my code, so the overall effort to convert all of
> > > Emacs to GTK3 must have been big.
> > >
> > > As an aside, some of the changes in GTK3 are annoying. The method of
> > > clipping I employ in GTK2 no longer works for innstance.
> >
> > As Gtk3 now is all Cairo, I think you must do clipping on that level.
> > Or is that behaving differently in Gtk2?
> > It might also be that more widgets are windowless (i.e. writes into
> > the parent window).
>
> Yes, I written some in the xwidget readme about it. The issue is mith
> windowless widgets. They seem to simply ignore clipping area
> requests. In GTK2 I was able to use GtkFixed and configure it to be
> windowed. This no longer works in gtk3.

Have you tried to use GtkEventBox?

        Jan D.