Re: Changing background and foreground of a widget

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Kent Schumacher <kent structural-wood com> writes:
> How do you change the background and foreground colors of a widget?
>
> I've looked through the archives and seen this question asked several
> times.  Both the FAQ and the archives seem to indicate that the answer
> is to change the resource file.
>
> This will not work for me because I am having a user pick specific
> color schemes and they have to be able to dynamically see the 
> combination of foreground and background.
>
> I have looked at the multiplicity of gtk_style* calls, but without
> documentation their operation is too opaque...

See: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-list/2000-October/msg00326.html

Havoc