RE: Setting the background color of a GtkFixed

["Tom Liu" <tom liu flextrade com>]

You can set GtkFixed to have GdkWindow also.

        GtkWidget *w=gtk_fixed_new();
        GTK_WIDGET_UNSET_FLAGS (w, GTK_NO_WINDOW);
Now I think you can set the background like other widget which has GDK
window.

Tom.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gtk-app-devel-list-bounces gnome org [mailto:gtk-app-devel-list-
> bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Olexiy Avramchenko
> Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 6:10 AM
> To: Tapan Satpathy Ansuman-A19108
> Cc: gtk-app-devel-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: Setting the background color of a GtkFixed
>
> Tapan Satpathy Ansuman-A19108 wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thanks. This worked well for me.
> >
> > I have two more questions.
> >
> > Is it possible to make the widget transparent ? I want to put my
Frame as
> a child of the fixed of another Frame, and I want to make the child
> transparent. Is there any way?
> >
> I think there's no easy way. Gdk window can have transparent
background
> [1], but many widgets (like GtkFixed) dont have corresponding gdk
> windows [2]. There's container with corresponding gdk window -
GtkLayout
> [3], try it instead of GtkFixed.
>
> [1]
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gdk/gdk-Windows.html#gdk-window-
> set-back-pixmap
> [2]
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkWidget.html#GTK-WIDGET-NO-
> WINDOW-CAPS
> [3] http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkLayout.html
>
> > Seocond,
> >
> > In frame heirarchy [Considering my approach to frame, ie, Frame =
frame +
> fixed], if I make a hirearchy of frames, the child frames are drifted
> right. I am putting the child frame in (0, 0) of the parent frame's
Fixed.
> I think this is happening because of the border of the frame, can I
avoid
> this?
> > |--------|
> > ||-------|
> > |||------|
> > |||______|
> >
> > This for reference.
> Any widget packed inside the frame will be shifted right by the
frame's
> side border width. You can't avoid this. Maybe you just dont need
frames
> in some cases ?
>
>     Olexiy
>
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