Re: Label background transparency

["Leandro A. F. Pereira" <leandro linuxmag com br>]

Quoted by a gathering of dumb monkeys
For `"Ariel Fritz" <duin@tutopia.com>' 
On Friday, 11 July 2003 (14:17):

> 
> I´m trying to write an application in gtk. I need show a label on a video, and
> I´d like that label´s background be transparent. 
>

	As you're displaying a video, draw the text with GDK functions. You want
gdk_draw_text; see the docs.

	However, GDK, for this kind of application, is too slow. You might consider
using SDL -- there's a GTK widget that swallows a SDL window lurking somewhere.

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