Hello, no - there is no direct way. VBox is one of the many windowless widgets in gtk - and having them is one of the good ideas in the class hierarchy. Thus you'd have to go the standard way to solve problems in gtk (for instance when having varying heights in a Gtk::HBox): Wrap a widget with another. You cannot work fluently with gtk without getting used to that without any anger. Here the usual way is probably to add the VBox to an EventBox (with keep_above = False, what is the default). Note, that even Gtk::Frame is windowless. The second problem then is to produce a Pixmap from a file. Imho these pixmaps are outdated relics of X11 (respective the X11-abstraction Gdk) - images on the XServer to save memory and footprint on the clients. And - when i have got it right - the gtk team is working on client-side pixmaps. Unfortunately there are no converting functions between pixbuf and pixmap - imho those were much more important. On X11 and Windows gtk.gdk.pixmap_create_from_xpm() is working (that means on Windows: Accepts the .bmp-format). The better way to provide a pixmap as the background is most probably that via a rc-file - that will certainly always be more independent of any concrete implementations. Good luck, Joost _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
