[maemo-developers] overlaid buttons

[From: kyle cronan]

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 3:28 AM, Cornelius Hald <hald at icandy.de> wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 23:58 +0200, Marius Gedminas wrote:
>> There's a package called hildon-extras that implements this kind of
>> widget.  It's called HeFullscreenButton, IIRC.
>
> Yes, the code can be found here:
> https://garage.maemo.org/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/trunk/hildon-extras/hildon-extras/he-fullscreen-button.c?revision=6&root=hildon-extras&view=markup
>
> What you do is, you basically create a new window without decorations
> and with transparent background. On that window you draw using Cairo. So
> you're not using standard widgets but you paint everything by your self.
>
> The code I linked is a specific implementation for a button which will
> let you leave fullscreen mode easily. It's not a generic overlay widget.
> It would be nice to have such a widget in hildon-extras, so if you're
> writing one, please let me know.
>
> Cheers!
> Conny
>

I'm not really familiar with Gobject, so I haven't made a new wiget.
But it was very helpful to have that code!  My application doesn't use
full screen, so I just modified it so that the overlay shows up all
the time.  I had to adjust the positioning and that was about it.

Thanks!
Kyle