Re: box around a GtkLabel

[Zvi Sebrow <zvi sebrow verizon net>]

Wally, 

I thought about using a frame,  but i couldnt find a way 
change the width of the lines (of the framei), or the color of the lines.
Is there a way to do that?

Zvi

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wallace Owen" <wallace owen L-3Com com>
To: "David Necas (Yeti)" <yeti physics muni cz>
Cc: "Zvi Sebrow" <zvi sebrow verizon net>; <gtk-app-devel-list gnome org>
Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 3:18 PM
Subject: Re: box around a GtkLabel


> 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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