RE: Rethemeable app

[martyn 2 russell bt com]

Yes

Have you looked at:
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-Resource-Files.html

and I believe, you can use:
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-Resource-Files.html#gtk-rc-pa
rse

e.g. gtk_rc_parse(myfilename);

Regards,
Martyn

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erik Simonsen [mailto:erik pinksheets com]
> Sent: 07 February 2003 19:06
> To: gtk-app-devel-list gnome org
> Subject: Rethemeable app
>
>
> I have an app that reads its own gtk.rc file when it runs.  I 
> would like
> it if a user could, from within the program, retheme the app 
> by loading
> another rc file.  I think I can load an additional rc file on 
> top of the
> rc's i'd loaded previously without any problems.  However, 
> I'd prefer to
> be able to unload the initial rc file before any new ones are loaded. 
> Otherwise, I believe that any properties specified in the first rc but
> not specified in the next rc would linger.  By the time the 
> user tried 
> 5 or 6 themes, I'd imagine that there would be a lot of unexpected
> properites hanging around.
>
> Is there a way to reset the whole rc subsystem to system 
> default without
> reloading the application?
>
> Thanks,
> Erik
>
>
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