Re: layers

[Tristan Van Berkom <tristan van berkom gmail com>]

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 04:58:11 -0800 (PST), Muthu <dearestchum yahoo co in> wrote:
[...]
> --- David Corrigan <lightingisfun gmail com> wrote:
>
> > Is there a way to layer items? For ex.: placing a
> > label on top of a
> > picture or drawing area.

You can easily do this with any widget thats a container, 
i.e. take a GtkBox or GtkTable or GtkFixed or whatever, make sure
to unset GTK_NO_WINDOW flag before realization and then
set the background pixmap for the container, then proceed to
add children and voila :)

Cheers,
                                              -Tristan