Re: drawing decoration on top of TextView

["Paul Davis" <pjdavis engineering uiowa edu>]

On 4/6/07, Kasper Peeters <kasper peeters aei mpg de> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I would like to draw some decoration in the border region of a Container
> widget. What is the recommended way to do this?
>
> (To be more specific: I have a bunch of TextView objects above each
> other, and want to draw a little
>
>      __
>      |
>      |
>      |
>      --
>
> type 'bracket' which shows the size of each of them. Without such a
> bracket it is impossible to see where one TextView starts and the next
> one ends. A themeable solution would be preferred).
>
> Best,
> Kasper
>
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I can't really think of a way to do what you're asking, but you might
have just as good of luck putting your text views in a Gtk::Frame
which would can put a border aorund each text view.

HTH,
Paul Davis