Hi, On 6 Mar 2010, at 19:26, Martin Drautzburg wrote:
> Hello all, > > I've been struggeling with the following problem: I want to have a grid in > the > background and I want to put Buttons (or other Widgets) on the Grid. > > I tried painting the grid using a DrawingArea. Which works. But I don't know > how to place other widgets on top. > > I tried using a gtk.Layout. This allows me to e.g. place two Button on the > screen so they overlap. The stacking order seems to be "last added widgets on > top". But this does not seem to work with the drawing area. The drawing area > is ALWAYS on top and hides my other widgets. > > If you tell me, that this shouldn't be, I'll go and look for glitches in my > code, but I suspect a more fundamental problem. You should be able to draw in the GtkLayout directly, by overriding the expose event (do_expose_event(self, event)). This has the same abilities as using the DrawingArea. If you call the parent class (the Layout) last. Take into account that a Layout is scrollable, whereas DrawingArea is not. Regards, Arjan _______________________________________________ pygtk mailing list pygtk@daa.com.au http://www.daa.com.au/mailman/listinfo/pygtk Read the PyGTK FAQ: http://faq.pygtk.org/
