Re: gtk embedding.

I don't really follow the details of this, but it doesn't sound like a
good candidate for the standard version of VPython because it is
apparently GTK-specific, and VPython attempts to be
platform-independent.

I'm currently studying how it might be possible to base VPython on
wxPython, in which case the OpenGL canvas could be part of a window,
with cross-platform support for menus etc. My immediate concern is, as
I've commented before, to be able to run VPython on a 64-bit Python on
the Mac, based on Cocoa. On the wxpython-users list, wxPython experts
have been very helpful in my quest, including making a suggestion on
how to get around the very serious problem that the Cocoa interact
loop must be in the primary thread, the roadblock that David Scherer
and I were unable to get around when we tried in 2008.

Bruce Sherwood

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Yann Golanski <[email protected]> wrote:
> A bug has risen from the embedding code I send earlier.  The code works
> fine under the fvwm2 window manager but not under Gnome.  It appears
> that Gnome is more picky with GTK.  This result in any embedding command
> destroying the VPythong window instead of embedding it.
>
> Basically, to embed a GTK window into another one, you need to have a
> pair of Gtk::Plug and Gtk::Socket.  The child process (VPython in this
> case) creates a plug and exposes the plug ID.  The programme that
> will embed VPython uses this plug ID as a parameter to its Gtk::Socket
> and thus can embed the plug.
>
> So, would it be possible to have a gtk::Plug() object within main_gui()
> and a method that would return the Plug ID?  Ideally, this would be
> wrapped within a Python call so that I could do something akin to:
>
>    display.get_selected()
>    plug_id = display.get_gtk_plug_id()
>
> Would it be okay if this became a feature request?
>
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