I cleaned up my example a bit and put it in GnomeLive. See:

http://live.gnome.org/OutlineLabel

Regards,
Dov

2009/3/5 Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobg...@gmail.com>

> Here's my solution in Vala. It creates a custom widget that inherits from
> GtkLabel and thus receives its label. The neat thing about this approach is
> that it then inherits all the size negotiations from GtkLabel, but it than
> overrides its expose handle, and then draws its PangoLayout first in one
> color, and then its outline in another color.
>
> Regards,
> Dov
>

> [stuff deleted]
>
> 2009/3/5 Christian Schaubschlaeger <c...@gup.uni-linz.ac.at>
>
> Hello!
>>
>> Is it possible to display the text of a gtk label in
>> a certain color, and each letter of the text shall have
>> a border in a different color (eg. black letters with
>> white border; for better readability on varying backgrounds).
>> Is there a way to achieve this in gtk+? Maybe using Pango?
>>
>> Thanks and best regards
>> Christian
>>
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