Class GTK2.Socket

Description

Together with W(Plug), GTK2.Socket provides the ability to embed widgets from one process into another process in a fashion that is transparent to the user. One process creates a GTK2.Socket widget and, passes the XID of that widget's window to the other process, which then creates a W(Plug) window with that XID. Any widgets contained in the W(Plug) then will appear inside the first applications window.

Note that if you pass the XID of the socket to another process that will create a plug in the socket, you must make sure that the socket widget is not destroyed until that plug is created. Violating this rule will cause unpredictable consequences, the most likely consequence being that the plug will appear as a separate toplevel window.

A socket can also be used to swallow arbitrary pre-existing top-level windows using steal(), though the integration when this is done will not be as close as between a W(Plug) and a GTK2.Socket.

Signals: plug_added

plug_removed

Inherit Container

inherit GTK2.Container : Container

Method create

GTK2.Socket GTK2.Socket(mapping|void props)

Description

Create a new GTK2.Socket.