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Hi

I have simple dialog which gets the Question and Answer from the user.
The dialog has a background bitmap, that covers the entire dialog.
Since the number of questions can vary, I needed a scroll bar.
Since the each question and answer is a text entry(edit box)
I had to create a scrolledwindow control, put a viewport control under it and
dumped all of my Q/A controls in there. Here is how the dialog looks.
I am NOT using cairo library. I am using GTK+2.4 and stock GTK objects.


|------- Dialog ------------------------------------------
|
||--------- scrolledwindow------------------
||
|||--------- viewport---------------------
|||
||| Label : Text entry
|||
||| Question: Whats your name?
||| Answer :
||| Question: Whats you age?
||| Answer :
|||--------- viewport --------------------
||
||----------- scolledwindow----------------
|
|------- Dialog ------------------------------------------

Issue:
If the Labels and the Text Entrys are OUTSIDE the scrolled window( but within dialog)
their background IS transparent. It takes the dialog bg color (bitmap color here). good.

If the Labels and the Text Entrys are INSIDE the scrolled window as shown above
their backgrounds are NOT transparent. It takes the system window color and its looks ugly.
Its like RED color filled rectangle around the Label and Text Entry.

how it looks: "Question" text below has a RED(or some other color) filled box around it.
|-------------------------------
| Question
|-------------------------------

My bitmap is ash color; The Label/Entry background is not ash. Its not transparent.


How do I make the Text Entry/Edit Box transparent in this case?

Is there a way to set the scrolledwindow and viewport
to be transparent? These control(s) are the ones taking away the transparency of the
controls that are inside them. I tried some simple methods for transparency. It didn't work.
(gdk_window_set_opacity(gtk_widget_get_window(pWdgScrolled_window), 0))


Any help is greatly appreciated!

Thank you
Ganesan