On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 13:27 +0100, Daniel Svensson wrote: > Hi, > I've been messing around with different approaches in hope of making > the background of a GtkTextView transparent with no solution in sight. > The closest I've come is making the whole widget transparent[1], but > as I want to keep the text non-transparent this is not an option. > > The reason I want a GtkTextView transparent is that I want to create a > window with a background image, and being able to put a text area of > variable size somewhere on it (the user will be able to move the text > area), and it's the window background that should be seen through the > GtkTextView. A picture says more than a thousand words, so have a look > at the video of OmmWriter[2]. > > Any hints on how to accomplish this with GTK+friends based libraries > would be greatly appreciated. Have you seen this http://dannipenguin.livejournal.com/283590.html ? John > > [1] http://library.gnome.org/devel/gdk/unstable/gdk-Windows.html#composited-window-example > [2] http://www.ommwriter.com/ > _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
