Re: non-themed widget styles?

[Chris Rorvick <chrisr trdlnk com>]

jcupitt gmail com wrote:
> On 10/31/07, Chris Rorvick <chrisr trdlnk com> wrote:
> > configuration-based styles) work nicely.  What I want to do is tell a
> > widget to be blue with minimal overhead.  A style is still handy in
>
> I'm being so dumb here. So why doesn't gtk_widget_set_name() work for
> this problem? I still don't understand :(
>
> I'm suggesting that rather than modifying styles as your program runs,
> you define a (large) set of static styles when you start up and then
> just switch the style a widget renders with. It should be a lot
> quicker.
>
> John

Yes!  I am seeing better performance using this method, at least in a
small test application.  Will require some work to make the application
work like this, but this is very promising.  Thanks for your help!

Chris