Re: Changing the bg color of a list item

[Ian Frawley <ifrawley opaltelecom co uk>]

Hi All

I have had a play with this and can't seem to get it to work. Has anyone had 
any success with this in the past:

Thanks

Ian


> Hi all.
>
> I have managed to change the back color of a list item but it only stays
> changed for about a millisecond. Then it turns white again. This is my
> code can anyone tell me where I am going wrong?
>
> TY
>
> Ian
>
> if(SetPointValue < atoi( (char *)list->data ) ){
>
>     char TempMess[1000];
>     strcpy(TempMess, "");
>     strcat(TempMess, CurrentTime);
>     strcat(TempMess, " - ALARM:- ");
>     strcat(TempMess, (char *)list->data );
>     strcat(TempMess, " HAS REACHED SETPOINT LIMIT!!!!" );
>
>    GdkColor color;
>    GtkStyle * style;
>
>    color.red = 65535;
>    color.green = 0;
>    color.blue = 0;
>
>    GtkWidget * listitem = gtk_list_item_new_with_label ( TempMess );
>
>    style = gtk_style_copy ( gtk_widget_get_style ( listitem ) );
>
>    for ( int i = 0 ; i < 5 ; i ++ )
>         style -> base[i] = color;
>
>   gtk_container_add ( GTK_CONTAINER ( objects->xmllist ), listitem );
>   gtk_widget_show ( listitem );
>
>   gtk_widget_set_style (listitem, rc_style);
>
> }