RE: drawing widget borders

[Michael L Torrie <torriem chem byu edu>]

On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 09:49, martyn 2 russell bt com wrote:
> > 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.

How does glade do this?  Glade draws boxes around every widget.  Of
course they probably use a special container widget, or do some kind of
hack.

> Regards,
> Martyn
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