[Gtk-sharp-list] Painting on the back of a TreeView

[Christian Hergert]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Iggy <iggy.ma at gmail.com> wrote:
> Id like to be able to paint some text on the back of a TreeView, so if
> there are no entries it might say something like "No results" on the
> treeview, but I can't figure out which code to use. I have tried
> painting on the background using a Pango.Layout but it isn;t showing
> up. I tried putting it in the Expose event and the Realized event.
>
> Does anybody know how to do this?

You could probably do this with a dummy row.

Are you aware that Gtk.TreeView has multiple GdkWindows?  The window
for the row area i believe is the "BinWindow"
(tree_view->priv->bin_window).

-- Christian