[pygtk] Custom Widgets (Movable Containers)

[Wildemar Wildenburger]

John Stowers wrote:
>> How would I draw the boxes efficiently? When moving the Boxes around, 
>> the different borders will unhinge a little (so you can see cracks 
>> between them) and I don't want that.
>> I have considered drawing the border as a whole and then overlaying 
>> the left and right sides with eventboxes to add the current 
>> functionality. Is that preferable? What /is/ preferable?
>> How can I shape these boxes efficiently? I know that this is answered 
>> in the FAQ; I would like to know how to reuse what I have already 
>> drawn, as in: "Make this thing transparent, *except* for where I've 
>> drawn."
>> Any other comments on my code are of course extremely welcome as well.
>>     
>
> I have had good success using pygoocanvas. It seems like a lot of work
> to do what you are trying to do using pure cairo - a canvas would make
> things easier and eliminate the redraw issues you are seeing.
>
>   
Thank you for that suggestion, John. From (briefly) looking around, 
pygoocanvas doesn't seem to be terribly well documented. With which I 
could probably manage. The bigger problem to me seems that it 
(appearantly) is not easily available for windows. While I am on Linux 
most of the time, I'd like my app to work additionally on Windows (at 
least).

/W
(Sorry I replied to you off-list, didn't mean to.)