Re: Color in GtkText

[Nigel Gamble <nigel nrg org>]

On Tue, 24 Nov 1998 sml13@cornell.edu wrote:
> I tried what you recommended, Nigel.  And (like the last time) the only 
> thing that it set right was the Font.  Nothing else.  The text background 
> is still white and the numbers are still black.  Do I have to get at the 
> GtkTextWidget WITHIN the GtkEntry to set this stuff?  That seems kind of 
> ugly, but I suppose it's possible.  Then I have to know about GtkEntry 
> internals just to set a few properties of it!  This can't be a Good Thing 
> (tm).  Any further advice would be greatly appreciated.  Here is the 
> relevant portion of the code that I am using verbatim:

It looks like, in a GtkEntry, the text color is style->fg (not
style->text) and the background is style->base (not style->bg).

This worked for me (I actually tried it this time):

	GdkColor c;
	GtkStyle *style;
	GtkWidget *time;

	time = gtk_entry_new();

	c.red = 0;
	c.green = 0xffff;
	c.blue = 0;
	gdk_color_alloc (gtk_widget_get_colormap (time), &c);

	style = gtk_style_copy (gtk_widget_get_style (time));
	style->text[GTK_STATE_NORMAL] = c;
	style->fg[GTK_STATE_NORMAL] = c;

	gdk_font_unref (style->font);
	style->font = gdk_font_load
		("-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-*-240-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1");

	c.red = 0;
	c.green = 0;
	c.blue = 0;
	gdk_color_alloc (gtk_widget_get_colormap (time), &c);
	style->bg[GTK_STATE_NORMAL] = c;
	style->base[GTK_STATE_NORMAL] = c;

	gtk_widget_set_style(time, style);

	gtk_entry_set_text(GTK_ENTRY (time), "[0] 00:00.00");


Nigel Gamble                                    nigel@nrg.org
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