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:
> > > (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).
> >
> > 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.
>
> I have thought of that, but it would mean that I get a line between
> each TextView (the bottom/top border lines). I would like to avoid
> that, i.e. get something drawn only on the left or right which
> nevertheless shows where one TextView ends and the next one begins.
>
> Best,
> Kasper

Sorry about the blank email.

Have you tried putting a VSeparator next to each TextView?

Are you not packing your TextView's in scrolled windows? Cause the
scroll bars would be a pretty good indication of the where they are.

Paul Davis