Re: padding around EventBox child?

[Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>]

Hi,

Skip Montanaro <skip pobox com> writes:

> I'm using a Table widget to layout a bunch of Labels.  Because I
> want to be able to set the background color of individual rows I
> placed each Label in an EventBox.  I'd like to allow the EventBoxes
> to fill the space allotted to them by the Table so the background
> color of the row is continuous (no Table background color leaking
> through between cells), but have some padding around the Labels so
> their contents don't all run together.  It doesn't appear that
> EventBox widgets provide any sort of padding for their children.
> The Container widget's border-width property doesn't seem to do what
> I want.  With a border-width of 2 I get a gutter between Labels
> showing the Table's background color.  Is there another approach (a
> substitute for the EventBox perhaps) to this problem?

gtk_misc_set_padding (GTK_MISC (label), xpad, ypad);


Sven