Re: backgroud colour - HELP

[Stephane Konstantaropoulos <stephanek brutele be>]

On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Steve & Patti Getzinger wrote:

> Stéphane Konstantaropoulos wrote:
> > Hello people,
> >
> > I am developping Lumiere, video player for gnome 2.
> >
> > It is in gtk 2.
> >
> > I have a problem with the colour of the background, what happens is:
> >
> >      The player is a GtkBin containing a GtkSocket.
> >      The GtkSocket, I resize to keep the aspect ratio, so it does not hold
> > all the space allowed by the window in which it is.
> >
> >      THe window is a bonobo window and it embeds the player via a
> > bonoboPlug.
> >
> > I found that the GtkBin shrinks according to the size of the GtkSocket,
> > so changing the color of the gtkbin is useless.
> >
> > What is the problem then? The area around the GtkBin and it's container,
> > the bonobo window. So I tried to change the window background, it does
> > it but then when I load the player widget in it, it goes back to the
> > default background colour...
> >
> > How can I do this? Is there a way of setting some kind of "default
> > background" or some thing like that??
> >
> > Thanks for your help
>
> Here is what I use. Thanks Eric Harlow :)
>
> > void SetStyle (GtkWidget *widget, gpointer data)
> >         {
> >                 GtkStyle *style;
> >
> >                 style = (GtkStyle *) data;
> >
> >                 gtk_widget_set_style(widget,style);
> >
> >                 if(GTK_IS_CONTAINER(widget))
> >                 {
> >                 gtk_container_foreach(GTK_CONTAINER(widget),SetStyle,style);
> >                 }
> >         }
>
> Hope that helps,
> Steve

Well it would if you advised which container to use as the top one...
The GtkBin I repeat is displayed as a GtkPlug, so setting its container
has no effect. I tried setting the GtkBin, it just worked but only for
the area of its child, around it it remains the default style...

More ideas??

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