Re: Setting the background color of a GtkFixed

[Olexiy Avramchenko <olexiy ctech cn ua>]

Tapan Satpathy Ansuman-A19108 wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Thanks. This worked well for me.
>
> I have two more questions.
>
> Is it possible to make the widget transparent ? I want to put my Frame as a child of the fixed of another 
> Frame, and I want to make the child transparent. Is there any way?
>  
I think there's no easy way. Gdk window can have transparent background 
[1], but many widgets (like GtkFixed) dont have corresponding gdk 
windows [2]. There's container with corresponding gdk window - GtkLayout 
[3], try it instead of GtkFixed.

[1] 
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gdk/gdk-Windows.html#gdk-window-set-back-pixmap
[2] 
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkWidget.html#GTK-WIDGET-NO-WINDOW-CAPS
[3] http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkLayout.html

> Seocond,
>
> In frame heirarchy [Considering my approach to frame, ie, Frame = frame + fixed], if I make a hirearchy of 
> frames, the child frames are drifted right. I am putting the child frame in (0, 0) of the parent frame's 
> Fixed. I think this is happening because of the border of the frame, can I avoid this?
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> This for reference.
>  
Any widget packed inside the frame will be shifted right by the frame's 
side border width. You can't avoid this. Maybe you just dont need frames 
in some cases ?

   Olexiy