Re: Building a GUI-Application

[John Cupitt <jcupitt gmail com>]

Good advice with the GtkFixed.

I would use a GtkLabel for the PDUs. You can't set the background
colour of a label directly, since it does not have it's own window.
Instead, put the label inside a GtkEventBox and set the background
colour of the event box. The event box will also make it easy to
detect mouse enter / exit events.

There's a section in the FAQ about label colour:

http://gtk.org/faq/#AEN815

You set a name for the widget (like "error_label", or "ok_label"),
then you have a style file which says how labels of each name should
be drawn.

On 10/19/05, Deekshit Mantampady <dmantamp gmail com> wrote:
> You can fixed layout (GtkFixed).
> For objects if you have a very few colors, You can use pixmap (.xpm) files.
>
> On 10/19/05, Kranz, Willi <kranz rheinmetall-de com> wrote:
> > What are the best GTK-Objects for the PDUs?
> >
> > How can I place the Objects on any position?