Re: GtkTextView with transparent background

[John Stowers <john stowers lists gmail com>]

On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 13:27 +0100, Daniel Svensson wrote:
> Hi,
> I've been messing around with different approaches in hope of making
> the background of a GtkTextView transparent with no solution in sight.
> The closest I've come is making the whole widget transparent[1], but
> as I want to keep the text non-transparent this is not an option.
> 
> The reason I want a GtkTextView transparent is that I want to create a
> window with a background image, and being able to put a text area of
> variable size somewhere on it (the user will be able to move the text
> area), and it's the window background that should be seen through the
> GtkTextView. A picture says more than a thousand words, so have a look
> at the video of OmmWriter[2].
> 
> Any hints on how to accomplish this with GTK+friends based libraries
> would be greatly appreciated.

Have you seen this

http://dannipenguin.livejournal.com/283590.html ?

John

> 
> [1] http://library.gnome.org/devel/gdk/unstable/gdk-Windows.html#composited-window-example
> [2] http://www.ommwriter.com/
>