Re: Changing background and foreground of a widget

[Kent Schumacher <kent structural-wood com>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 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
Thanks Havoc,

I'll give it a try as soon as I get my blood caffeine up to a level suitable
for coding...

Hope you're having a good day,
Kent