Re: Change label text color in Gtk 1+

[Boštjan Špetič <igzebedze auch eu org>]

On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 13:11:19 +0200, David Morel <dmorel intradot com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Although I found quite a few pages related to this -in my opinion-
> simple topic, none othe recipes I tried work. I've been looking for 2
> hours and achieved nothing.
>
> All I want is have an individual text label turn red in a window ! How
> simpler can it get ? It would most certainly be so easy in GTK2+, but I
> have no choice right now :-(

label is transparent, thus you have to create an eventbox under it, and pait that one.

	my $box = new Gtk2::EventBox;
	my $label = new Gtk2::Label('Label');
	my $red = new Gtk2::Gdk::Color(65535,0,0);
	$box->modify_bg('normal',$red);
	$box->add($label);


regards, bostjan