Re: box around a GtkLabel

[Wallace Owen <wallace owen L-3Com com>]

On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 19:14 +0100, David Necas (Yeti) wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 01:09:39PM -0500, Zvi Sebrow wrote:
> > I'm trying to draw a box around one or more GtkLabels.
> > when i use a GtkDrawingArea, the box comes out fine, 
> > but the labels are covered by the inside of the box. 
> > is there a way to set a GtkDrawingArea to be transparent,
> > so it wont cover up any GtkLabels?
> >
> > or is there another, simpler way of doing this?
>
> Yes, it is: just draw the text with gdk_draw_layout() on the
> drawing area.

But if you really want labels, and only used GtkDrawingArea because you
thought it'd be a way to decorate around them, then what you really want
to do is put rour labels in an hbox or vbox, then put the hbox in a
frame, and don't use GtkDrawingArea unless you want to draw primitives
like lines, arcs, polygons and text.


  // Wally

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