Re: make tree widget 3-d

[John Vetterli <jvetterli linux ca>]

On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> Hi, when I put a GtkFreeView in my window, either directly or within
> an intermediate GtkScrolled Window, the result has a flat white to
> gray boundary.  I'd like my lists and trees to have the same sunken
> three dimensional look as edit boxes have, is that possible?  Is
> there a general way to do this with any widget?

Have a look at GtkFrame:
  http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkFrame.html

In a nutshell, it's a container that provides a 3-d-like frame around the 
widget it contains.

If your widget is in a GtkScrolledWindow, have a look at 
gtk_scrolled_window_set_shadow_type ().
  http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkScrolledWindow.html#gtk-scrolled-window-set-shadow-type

HTH
JV