RE: drawing widget borders

[<martyn 2 russell bt com>]

> > Philippe Laporte wrote:
> >
> > >     Is there some kind of debugging option in Gtk so that 
> all widgets 
> > > will draw their borders in special colors so we can see 
> the spacign 
> > > arrangement?
> >
> > I don't think so. However, maybe you can try to achieve a 
> similar effect
> > by creating a special "debugging" theme for GTK? For 
> instance, colouring
> > all HBoxes, VBoxes and Tables in a flamboyant red or green should
> > provide you with good ideas about which area is occupied by 
> the layout
> > container and which is by the actual widgets.
>
> This won't work - HBoxes, VBoxes, Tables don't have backgrounds, or
> even expose handlers.

Owen's right, I had this problem once, I used an eventbox to draw a background colour.  You could use this 
and have a widget on top of it which is a few pixels smaller, hence giving the impression there is a border 
of the background colour you set up.

Regards,
Martyn