Re: Widget background (gtk+-1.2.10)

[Noah Levitt <nlevitt columbia edu>]

Draw a rectangle the size of the drawing area
(widget->allocation) with the color you want.

Noah

On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 15:14:38 -0600, Nix wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Is there a way to override the default background colour of a widget (a
> GtkDrawingArea, more specifically).  I tried setting the 
> widget->style->fg[0] through widget->style->fg[0] to
> widget->style->black, that is:
>
> for (i = 0 ; i < 5 ; i++)
> memcpy (&widget->style->fg[i], &widget->style->black, sizeof(GdkColor));
>
> This worked, but it also set the background of all my other widgets.  My
> menus, for example, now had a black background and were unreadable.  Is
> there a better way ?
>
>
>
> TIA