Bob Caryl wrote:
Your code doesn't work because you are not modifying the object that actually renders the editable cell within the entry. You need to retrieve the Pango layout for the entry and modify the background color attribute of the layout. The following URL is a good place to start delving into this: http://www.gtkmm.org/gtkmm2/docs/reference/html/classPango_1_1Layout.html Hope this helps a little.
I did look at the Pango layout, but the word 'color' does not appear on that page anywhere. I also looked at the AttrList, Context, etc. structures referenced on this page, but they don't contain any color-related information either.
am I missing something?