Re: drawing GtkEntry

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Davina Armstrong <davina lickey com> writes:
> I'm trying to change the appearance of GtkEntry to be a dotted underline
> rather than a white box.  I've got the dotted line being drawn, but I
> can't figure out where the white rectangle is being drawn.  I was able
> to draw a gray box *over* the white one, but I'd prefer not to draw the
> white one in the first place.  Help, anyone?
> 

The way to do this is to subclass GtkEntry and replace its drawing
code, probably.

The white rectangle is most likely set as the window background in the
realize function; you'd need to override that as well, probably your
override should chain up to the default GtkEntry realize, then reset
the window background.

Havoc