On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 15:18 -0800, David E. Konerding wrote: > Hi folks, > > I previously posted a question about containers; specifically, i want to > have a layout container in which drawing > done to the parent window "shows through" layout where nothing is placed > on the layout. Here's an example of what's not working for me. > The diagonal line is obscured by the inner_layout Layout container, > although I am setting the back_pixmap for the Layout's window and > bin_window to NULL, which is supposed to do what I want. Anybody have > any suggestions? its a lot more complex than you think. i think. X (and thus gdk) is fundamentally rooted in the idea of rectangular windows, and somewhat less fundamentally rooted in them being basically opaque. you can work around both using gdk_window_shape_combine_mask(), but its not easy and may be more work than you want to do. --p _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
