I have a custem widget (gtk.Drawable) which lies on a gtk.Notebook. My gtk theme has a gradient background for notebooks, so my custom widget looks odd with its flat background. Will this be able to fix my problem as well? On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 23:32 +0200, gege2061 wrote: > Hi, > > It's possible with cairo : http://plan99.net/~mike/files/alphademo.c > > Screenshot : http://gtk.developpez.com/faq/images/transparent.png > > 2008/3/30, Paul Davis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > > On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 10:11 +0530, Harinandan S wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > I am looking at ways to make a window transparent and only some > > > widgets on the window to be visible. I found > > > > > > gtk_window_set_opacity API but this API sets opacity to entire window > > > but not to a widget. > > > > > > Is there any way I can make the window transparent and show only > > > widgets? > > > > > > I am also looking at ways to show multiple windows and set appropriate > > > transparency to widgets to get the > > > > > > desired widgets from each window on the screen. > > > > the functionality you want basically does not exist in GTK at this time. > > there are ways to fake parts of it, and get things close to what you are > > thinking of, but i would suggest revisiting your ideas about GUI design. > > GTK is not the toolkit to use if transparency and so forth is critical > > to what you want to do. Keep in mind, though, that transparency has only > > recently been part of the "conceptual toolkit" for GUIs, and its > > perfectly possible to design highly functional, deeply usable interfaces > > without it. > > > > --p > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gtk-list mailing list > > gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list > > > > -- Best Regards, Med Venlig Hilsen, Thomas _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
