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Hi,
I need to draw a border around a particular row in the gtktreeview, I am able to set the cell-background color for each cell but how do i set cell border color.

Thanks in Advance
Kowsalya

Hi people,
My post has no replies still kindly give me some input am not able to proceed on this

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1) existing code
2) GTK version your running
3) OS and version, i.e. Linux Ubuntu 11.04

Solved this problem by getting the cell height and width where border needs to be drawn and drew the border using drawing area. will be posting the code shortly

Kowsalya, please share more information on how you solved it. (I don't understand how to use DrawingArea to draw a border around a row in the TreeView)

Kowsalya, this method seems quite unideal.
If you are using gtk3 properties such as the border colour can be controlled using css. Zerohour has put together a number of tutorials about it http://www.gtkforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=988&start=15. This is why you were asked what version of gtk you were using. How you approach the problem will depend on what version you have (in gtk2 styling can be done with rc files).
Even if you get your drawing area to fit the cells perfectly and track changes to them and update smoothly, you are essentially bloating your code with procedures that are already in-built in gtk.

I am trying to figure out how to put a border around a selected row (row in TreeView).

I am using gtk 2.12.9 (MontaVista Linux version 4.0.1, Linux kernel 2.6.10). And, I don't have the premissions to upgrade to gtk 3.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Actually I didn't turn up anything concerning borders in gtkrc files. Seems the method often employed in gtk2 is to pack your widget in an eventbox or frame and set the background of the eventbox/frame to give the colour and the spacing to give the width. Might be a whole lot trickier to border entire rows as opposed to individual cells (would have to check with someone with significant treeview experience).

Thank you, Paul Childs, for looking in to this. Good to know that I can't use gtkrc for this.

I have no idea how to border the 'entire' row. Giving up on Treeview. I'll probably try a VBox with buttons or something else.