Re: Bring a widget to the foreground

[John Emmas <johne53 tiscali co uk>]

On 2 Jan 2011, at 14:40, jcupitt gmail com wrote:

> You can just set the alignment on the label to get them to display at
> the top of the button.
>
> > [...]
>
> GTK does not officially support overlapping widgets. However, you can
> sort-of do it by putting groups of widgets into eventboxes and putting
> those boxes into a layout. To move to the front, ref the box, remove
> it from the layout, add again, and unref. It would probably work with
> other containers too. I hope I've understood what you want.

Thanks John,

To be honest, all I'm trying to do is create a button whose label font can be changed on demand.  I've 
managed to achieve it by using an empty button with a label on top, except that the label doesn't always stay 
on top!

I'm probably being incredibly dim but I couldn't find a way to do this with a standard gtk button.  I could 
change the label's text quite easily but not its font.  Am I missing something very obvious?

John