Re: Setting the background colour of a container

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Wolfgang Sourdeau <wolfgang ultim net> writes:
> What is the way of setting the background colour of a container such
> as a GtkTable? I have tried different ways during 2 hours without
> success...

Put the GtkTable in a GtkEventBox, set the color of the event box.
 
> Another question is, in the same table, how do I insert buttons with a
> maximum size ? What I was using before is a GtkFixed instead of the
> table, which used to work fine but is less pretty.

You can't set a maximum size in any straightforward way I can think
of. Typically you pack the table in such a way that extra space goes
to widgets other than buttons.

Havoc