StaticText over BitmapCanvas - GTK issue? (was Re: Odd behaviors of Pythoncard under Ubuntu: errors on exit, StaticText over BitmapCanvas, multiple item move)

On Mon, 3 Nov 2008 17:46:10 -0800, "Morgan Venable" <[email protected]> wrote:

> It appears to be impossible to get a StaticText widget to render in
> front of a BitmapCanvas.  I need to use some bitmapcanvases to show
> colored areas behind my interface.  No matter what the order of the
> items is in the resource file, the static text ALWAYS renders behind
> the BitmapCanvas.
> Other widgets like buttons, gauges etc all render fine, according to
> order in the file.
> 
> Bug or Feature?

Could be a bug. I can place StaticText over a BitmapCanvas without any issues on XP, but on my old OpenBSD box (Python 2.4 + wxPython 2.6.3) I see the same problem, plus I cannot change the background colour of the StaticText component. Maybe a GTK2 issue?

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Neil Hughes

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