Re: Setting frametype of any widget

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> writes:

> Fredrik Rambris <fredrik rambris com> writes:
> > Sorry.. I mean GtkShadowType
>
> Right. There's gtk_button_set_relief(), which will turn off the
> bevel. You can't do SHADOW_IN or anything though.
>
> If you want more, the only thing you can do is override the
> expose_event and draw handlers for the button; the two ways to do that
> are to connect to those signals and emit_stop_by_name() to keep the
> default handlers from running, or to create a full-blown GtkObject
> subclass. Unfortunately you have to replace all the drawing code, not
> just the frame drawing code, with that approach.

Or, you can simply put the widget inside a GtkFrame.

Generally for things like shadow types, padding, etc, GTK+
goes with a "decoration" model, where you put the widget into
another widget which adds the shadow drawing or padding, instead
of trying to put every feature in every widget.

Regards,
                                        Owen