gtk_widget_get_style

[James Gregory <james linuxaus com>]

Hi all,

I'm trying to get some info about the theme that gtk is using. For now
I'm trying to grab the background colour of windows. I'm using a little
C program, the two relevant lines are as follows:

    window = gtk_window_new (GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL);
    style = gtk_widget_get_style (window);

then I pull the bg field out of that style struct and look at its
contents. The first element is a colour that looks like this:

red:0.862745    green:0.854902  blue:0.835294

which isn't quite right (I think). I'm using bluecurve, and according to
/usr/share/themes/Bluecurve/gtk-2.0/gtkrc, the background colour of
windows (as far as I can see) is set to:

  bg[NORMAL]      = { 0.9, 0.9, 0.9 }

(GtkWidget is set to use the bluecurve-default style, which sets that
background) - now I either don't understand how the gtk theme system
works (which is really pretty likely) or I'm getting the wrong numbers
there.

What have I done wrong?

many thanks,

James.