Re: Set the background color in GTK1

[todd <taf2 lehigh edu>]

Hi Kevin,
there is this tutorial you might want to try
http://ometer.com/gtk-colors.html

-todd

> Marc,
>
> Still does not work
>
>             style = gtk_rc_style_new();
>             style->bg[GTK_STATE_NORMAL] = color;
>             style->color_flags[GTK_STATE_NORMAL] = (GtkRcFlags)
> (style->color_flags[GTK_STATE_NORMAL] | GTK_RC_BG);	    
> 	    gtk_widget_modify_style(gtkwidget,style);
>             gtk_widget_modify_style(drawing_area,style);
>             gtk_rc_style_unref(style);
>
> compiles and is executed, but does not do anything...
>
> Kevin
>
> On Monday 19 April 2004 06:25 am, Marc Santhoff wrote:
>  
>
> > Am Mo, den 12.04.2004 schrieb Kevin DeKorte um 22:42:
> >    
> >
> > > Peter,
> > >      
> > I'm not, but hi Kevin!
> >
> >    
> >
> > > Didn't seem to do it
> > >
> > > I do this to get the style
> > >
> > >         style = gtk_style_copy(gtk_widget_get_style(gtkwidget));
> > >        color.red = style->bg[GTK_STATE_NORMAL].red;
> > >        color.green = style->bg[GTK_STATE_NORMAL].green;
> > >        color.blue = style->bg[GTK_STATE_NORMAL].blue;
> > >         black.red = 0;
> > >         black.green = 0;
> > >         black.blue = 0;
> > >
> > > This to set the color
> > >
> > >             style->bg[GTK_STATE_NORMAL].red = black.red;
> > >             style->bg[GTK_STATE_NORMAL].green = black.green;
> > >             style->bg[GTK_STATE_NORMAL].blue = black.blue;
> > >             gtk_widget_set_style(gtkwidget,style);
> > >             gtk_widget_ensure_style(gtkwidget);
> > >
> > > And this to restore it
> > >
> > >             style->bg[GTK_STATE_NORMAL].red = color.red;
> > >             style->bg[GTK_STATE_NORMAL].green = color.green;
> > >             style->bg[GTK_STATE_NORMAL].blue = color.blue;
> > >
> > >             gtk_widget_set_style(gtkwidget,style);
> > >             gtk_widget_ensure_style(gtkwidget);
> > >
> > > And the background color always stays the default grey.
> > >      
> > There's a tutorial by Havoc Pennington on this topic, but I lost the URL
> > (could be:  http://pobox.com/~hp ), so I post a short part for GTK+ 1.2:
> >
> > Short answer: how to set the color of a widget
> > In GTK+ 1.2:
> >
> >  GtkRcStyle *rc_style;
> >  GdkColor color;
> >
> >  /* There are two good ways to fill in a color */
> >
> >  /* 1) Initialize r/g/b components, they are 16-bit values */
> >  color.red = 65535;
> >  color.green = 0;
> >  color.blue = 0;
> >
> >  /* 2) Parse a color string; an HTML color spec such as "#FF0000"
> >   * is allowed here too
> >   */
> >  gdk_color_parse ("red", &color);
> >
> >
> >  /* After filling in your GdkColor, create a GtkRcStyle */
> >
> >  rc_style = gtk_rc_style_new ();
> >
> >  /* Set foreground (fg) color in normal state to red */
> >  rc_style->fg[GTK_STATE_NORMAL] = color;
> >
> >  /* Indicate which colors the GtkRcStyle will affect;
> >   * unflagged colors will follow the theme
> >   */
> >  rc_style->color_flags[GTK_STATE_NORMAL] |= GTK_RC_FG;
> >
> >  gtk_widget_modify_style (widget, rc_style);
> >
> >  gtk_rc_style_unref (rc_style);
> >
> > As you can see, I think you should use "gtk_widget_modify_style()" and
> > check the definition of the used types.
> >
> > I had some trouble with this myself.
> >
> > HTH,
> > Marc
> >
> >
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