Re: Background images in window

["Trish" <cascadia swiftdsl com au>]

Sorry it's taken me so long to get back to this. I need to give this a bit
more time, but for now I've just done a very amateur hack in positioning
both windows in the center of the screen and using timeouts (which I did
manage to get working) to kill them both at the same time, so that at the
moment, it *looks* like they're just one window. I know this won't always
work, though, so if I have time I'll try your two suggestions again this
week.

Chris.


:Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 10:07:15 +0200 (MEST)
:From: Peter Krueger <pkrueger appss de>
:I never tried something like this myself, but I can image two 
:approaches:
:1) Use the theming engine: Set a RCstyle for your splash-screen-widget
:where you change the bg_pixmap property (See
:http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-Resource-Files.html)
:2) If the first solution doesn't work you may try a more intrusive
:approach: Create a GtkTable like this:
:
:  0         1
:0 -----------
:  |         |
:1 -----------
:  |         |
:2 -----------
:
:Then put your background image in (0,0)x(1,2) so that it fills the
:complete space. Put the progress bar in (0,1)x(1,2) to fill the lower
:line. Both widgets are then drawn on top of each other. To 
:make this work
:it is important in which order you add the widgets to the 
:table, so if you
:can't see the progress bar try to change the order of adding 
:them to the
:table.
:I don't know whether this (still) works, I only read about 
:something like
:this some time ago. You should try do use the first approach anyway.