Hi Putting a GtkLabel inside a GtkDrawingArea doesn't make sense to me... If you want to draw text look at pango: Pango docs -> Basic Pango Interfaces -> Layout Objects -> PangoLayout. GDK docs -> Drawing Primitives -> gdk_draw_layout HTH Jan-Marek _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list