John Coppens wrote: > On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:55:35 -0600 > Jeffrey Barish <jeff_bar...@earthlink.net> wrote: > >> I would like a popup window with a black line on its border in which I >> can put a label to alert the user to a failure condition. A Dialog >> doesn't work because the appearance and disappearance of the window is >> entirely under program control. A WINDOW_POPUP doesn't work because it >> lacks the black line on its border (even when I set decorate). A >> WINDOW_TOPLEVEL is almost right, but I would prefer that the destroy >> button and the window menu button not appear -- not to mention the >> title bar at the top. Is there a way to make any of these things >> disappear? > > You can do everything with a normal window, Jeffrey. Look up the right > functions, but you can: > > 1) Make de decorations disappear, leaving a clean rectangle. > 2) Put an image on the background, with the black border you want, > making it fill the window entirely, > 3) Put a label in the center of that window, and enter the text you > wish to show. > > You might want to search for the many examples of 'splash screens' with > GTK available on the 'net.
Thanks to you and Ardhan for the suggestions. They led me to the following solution: Get the Gdk_Window. It has a set_decorations method. One of the options is DECOR_BORDER, which draws only a black line around the window -- no title bar. -- Jeffrey Barish _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
