Hello. I'm trying to print text on a button graphic. I'd like the graphic to show around the text. This way, I can use 1 graphic for the buttons, and change the text on top the button as needed. It will also help with internationalization, hopefully.

Is there a way to draw text such that the background shows through? I can create a TextDisplay and print text, but the box is opaque. I cannot figure out how to do transparency, except as a PNG image with a transparent color. Any suggestions?

I am new to FLTK, and maybe I've missed something obvious, but I cannot find a way to do this in the FLTK docs (I'm using 1.7) or in these forums. Thanks.

Text in FLTK is always drawn without background. What you are probably seeing is a boxtype (Fl_Boxtype, Fl_Widget::box()) that erases your background drawing. You may have to introduce a new boxtype to draw your image based boxes. There are a few implementations of this in the "links" section of fltk.org.