Re: GtkTextView with transparent background

[Vikram Noel Ambrose <noel ambrose gmail com>]

Daniel Svensson wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Vikram Noel Ambrose
> <noel ambrose gmail com> wrote:
>   
> > I just watched the OmmWriter video. If I was to implement the same thing in
> > GTK I would:
> >
> > 1. Create a GtkTextView, put it in a box and add it to a GtkWindow
> > OR
> > 1. Use a GdkDrawable for the entire thing
> >     
>
> Getting the GtkTextView to be draggable around the GtkWindow (or
> something), setting background image of the GtkWindow, and all the
> other small things are the easy part, the problem I ask for here is
> how to get rid of the white background in the GtkTextView widget and
> instead make it transparent so that when dragged around, the main
> background will be seen right through the GtkTextView. It sounds like
> a very simple task, but I can't seem to get rid of the background no
> matter what I do.
>
>   
I addressed this problem in one of my links. Did you go through the 
links? It shows you how to remove the "white background" of the TextView.