[pygtk] DrawingArea and mouse events

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 09:10:57AM +0200, Donn wrote:
> I want to be able to bring "life" to each shape (rep by an object internally) 
> such that they:
> * detect mouse enter/leave
> * detect mouse clicks
> * detect key press

What you're looking for is, for some reason or another, known as a
"canvas".  There are a number of canvas libraries for GTK --
goocanvas, hippocanvas, arguably the clutter toolkit, and about half a
dozen others.  (Don't be misled by "gnomecanvas", though, it has the
most official-sounding name because it was first, not because it is
particularly good.)

People on the list might have suggestions for sorting through these.

-- Nathaniel

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