Re: Setting a background image inside a window

[michi7x7 <mailing-lists michi7x7 de>]

Am 11.12.2009 18:48, schrieb Adrián Ortega:
> Hello! I'm programming a small application which gets connected to a 
> MySQL database to get info and update the database (that part is 
> already taken care of) and the GUI has the following layout:
>
> /******************************************************/
> / Menu 
> bar                                                               
>              /
> /******************************************************/
> /tool 
> bar                                                               
>                  /
> /******************************************************/
> /      
> USER_AREA                                                        
>            /
> /      Here I use Gtk::Button's and Gtk::Entry's and             /
> /     some other widgets to get and display the                 /
> /     database 
> info                                                                 /
> /                                                                      
>                        /
> /                                                                      
>                        /
> /******************************************************/
> /status bar                                                            
>                  /
> /******************************************************/
>
> What I'm trying to do is to put a background image in the USER_AREA, 
> so the user can get/update the database info and have a friendly and 
> good-looking background image.
>
> The images are .jgp and .bmp. I already tried to use Gtk::Image and 
> the image is displayed properly, but I'd like to put all the Widgets 
> to work with the database on the USER_AREA where the image is located 
> and I haven't figured that out yet.
>
> Everything works fine, the only thing I need to do is the background 
> image. I haven't discovered yet if this is possible or not, in case 
> it's possible, do you know what Widgets I should use to do this? Or 
> some reference I can check?
>
> Thank you very much in advance!!
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Gtk::Container inherits Gtk::Widget which has a method called 
Gtk::Widget::modify_bg_pixmap. This one should help you ;)

More here: 
http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtkmm/unstable/classGtk_1_1Widget.html#aa294ace5075f2875b6cae7f098ea36ea

Michi