Re: Setting the background colour of a container

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Wolfgang Sourdeau <wolfgang ultim net> writes:

> La plume légère, à Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 02:28:00AM -0400, heure d'inpiration,
> acano systec com écrivait en ces mots:
> > On Thu, 07 Sep 2000 01:44:25 -0400, Wolfgang Sourdeau <wolfgang ultim net> wrote:
> > One problem you could be having is that the widgets you put into
> > the table take up all the space and you don't see the change in the
> > table's background color.  Try changing the background color of the
> > widgets you place into the table.
>
> Actually I have found in the GTK tutorial that GtkTable was one of the
> few containers which didn't have their own GdkWindow. This explains my
> problems. I intend to replace the table with a fixed, since there
> doesn't appear to have a better solution (except maybe the fixed in
> the table)...

A GtkEventBox is probably a better choice, since it doesn't introduce 
evil fixed positioning into your application.

                                        Owen