[matplotlib-devel] Gtk.Layout instead of Gtk.DrawingArea

[Steve C. <ste...@ya...>]

On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 20:32 -0700, John Hunter wrote:
>         OK, great.  Steve could you take a look at this when you get a
>         minute
>         and give some feedback about whether you think this is a god
>         idea.

The patch works OK when I tried it, and the example displayed a button
in the FigureCanvas. How is it extremely useful to place a widget on top
of a FigureCanvas?

I think a figure widget should just show figures, extra widgets can
always be placed outside the figure widget.
Gtk.DrawingArea is a simple, fast widget. Gtk.Layout (as used by
GnomeCanvas) is more complicated and has a higher overhead.

This week I read that the widget item in gnome-canvas does not work very
well
http://blogs.gnome.org/view/alexl/2005/09/14/0

Steve

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