Re: Rendering text with an outline

[Lieven van der Heide <lievenvanderheide gmail com>]

You could first draw the text in the outline color a couple of times,
using a slight offset in a different direction each time, then after
that you draw the text in the main color on top of that.


On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Christian Schaubschlaeger
<cs gup uni-linz ac at> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Is it possible to display the text of a gtk label in
> a certain color, and each letter of the text shall have
> a border in a different color (eg. black letters with
> white border; for better readability on varying backgrounds).
> Is there a way to achieve this in gtk+? Maybe using Pango?
>
> Thanks and best regards
> Christian
>
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