Re: Cannot set foreground colour of Entry widget

[Edoardo Vigoni <vigoni aero polimi it>]

Try this code. I use this in gtk+-1.2 and work well. colore1 is the text color and colore2 the background color, I set also the font of the text, the widget is the entry:

you can call in this way:
color_set_display(GTK_WIDGET(entry), "pale green", "black");

void color_set_display(GtkWidget *widget, gchar *colore1, gchar *colore2)
{
GtkStyle    *style;

GdkColormap *cmap;
GdkColor    color;
GdkFont     *font;


    style=gtk_style_new();

    font=gdk_font_load("-schumacher-clean-bold-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-iso646.1991-*");

    if (font != NULL) style->font=font;

    cmap = gdk_colormap_get_system();
    gdk_color_parse(colore1, &color);

    if(!gdk_colormap_alloc_color(cmap, &color, TRUE, TRUE))
    	{
    	g_error("couldn't allocate colour");
    	}

    style->fg[GTK_STATE_NORMAL]=color;

    gdk_color_parse(colore2, &color);

   if(!gdk_colormap_alloc_color(cmap, &color, TRUE, TRUE))
    	{
    	g_error("couldn't allocate colour");
    	}

    style->base[widget->state]=color;

    gtk_widget_set_style(widget, style);

}


> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 16:16:18 +0200
> From: Preben Randhol <randhol+gtk pvv org>
> To: Gtk-List <gtk-list gnome org>
> Subject: Cannot set foreground colour of Entry widget
> Organization: PVV
>
> I have problems setting the foreground colour of an Entry widget. In
> Gtk+-1.2 I modified a Style and then applied this to get say red colour
> on the text of the Entry widget text. This way still works for Label
> (though I use pango's markup instead now). However for a Entry widget
> this approach does not work anymore. Is there something special one need
> to do in Gtk+-2.x for Entry widgets?
>
> I want to change colour if the string that is entered is not correct.
>
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