From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2005-07-07T20:25:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Bordered Gtk Label

Martin DeMello <martindemello@yahoo.com> wrote:
> How do I draw a rectangular border around a Gtk Label? Also, is there
> any way to set the background colour on an individual widget?

FWIW the answers are

1. Enclose it in a Gtk::Frame (at least, that's the best I could come up
with)

2. Gtk::Widget#modify_bg(state, colour)

(From Geoff Youngs on the ruby-gnome2 mailing list:
    ISTR that this only works for widgets which actually have a background
    window, otherwise you'll need to wrap the widget in a Gtk::EventBox,
    which does.
    
    e.g.
    col   = Gdk::Color.parse("red")
    label = Gtk::Label.new("Warning")
    eb    = Gtk::EventBox.new()
    eb.add(label)
    eb.modify_bg(Gtk::STATE_NORMAL, col)
)

martin