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Sample Code 9: How to put a border around GtkLabel?

Written by kksou

Wednesday, 13 September 2006

Problem

You want to achieve the following:

How to put a border around GtkLabel?

Solution

Create a GtkFrame
Place the label in the frame
Set the background color of the frame with modify_bg which will become the color of the border

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<?php
$window = &new GtkWindow();
$window->connect_simple('destroy', array( 'Gtk', 'main_quit'));
$window->set_size_request(400,200);

// create a vbox to hold multiple labels
$vbox = new GtkVBox();

$frame = new GtkFrame();
$frame->modify_bg(Gtk::STATE_NORMAL, GdkColor::parse('#0000ff')); // note 1

// create the title label and stuff it in the eventbox
$title = new GtkLabel('This is the title');
$title->set_size_request(100,48);
$frame->add($title);
$vbox->pack_start($frame, 0, 0); // note 2

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Explanation

You can add a border to GtkLabel with GtkFrame.

Note 1: this sets the color of the border. Note the use of modify_bg and not modify_fg.

Note 2: this make sure that php-gtk doesn't change the size of title.

Note 3: this makes the body text stretechable, that is, it will take on whatever space remains below the title.

You may want to compare this with modify_bg/set-the-background-color-of-GtkLabel.php">setting background color of GtkLabel. The concept is exactly the same, except a border uses GtkFrame, and setting background color uses eventbox.

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