statusbar foreground color: solved

[carlos pehoe civil ist utl pt (Carlos Pereira)]

I solved my problem with the statusbar foreground color!

After looking into the code I have found that a GtkStatusbar 
is essentially a label mounted on top of a frame packed into 
a hbox... Therefore everything that is usually applied to a 
label (for example on a button) can equally be applied to a 
statusbar. Not only changing the foreground color is easy, 
but changing the message alignment is also easy as well
(see examples below).

I believe even the usual pop/push mechanisms could be completely
circumvented, just by using gtk_label_set_text, though this 
is probably not recommended, particularly in multi-threaded,
multi-process code (because of the contexts).

Carlos

----------------------Gtk 1.2-----------------
GdkColor color;
GtkStyle *style;
GtkWidget *label = GTK_STATUSBAR (statusbar)->label;

/* change statusbar foreground color to red */
gdk_color_parse ("red", &color);
style = gtk_style_copy (gtk_widget_get_style (label));
style->fg[GTK_STATE_NORMAL] = color;
style->fg[GTK_STATE_ACTIVE] = color;
style->fg[GTK_STATE_PRELIGHT] = color;
style->fg[GTK_STATE_SELECTED] = color;
style->fg[GTK_STATE_INSENSITIVE] = color;
gtk_widget_set_style (label, style);
gtk_style_unref (style);

/* align statusbar message in the center */
gtk_misc_set_alignment (GTK_MISC (label), 0.5, 0.5);