Re: Set the background color in GTK1

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw netspace net au>]

Chris Seaton wrote:
> Kevin DeKorte wrote:
>
> > I have an application that I am working on that I need to set a 
> > GtkWidow's background color. I have been able to do this in GTK2 
> > pretty easily, but how do I change in GTK1? I'm writing my app to work 
> > in both GTK1 and GTK2 because it is a mozilla plugin and mozilla ships 
> > in both flavors.
>
> I can't help you, but I'm interested in why people are so interested in 
> setting the background colour of widgets. It's always coming up! What's 
> going on out there that people need to set the colour of their widgets 
> to something other than what the user wants?

I have functions to fill gtktables with database data, and the font size,
weight, foreground, and background colours are more configurable than
just getting values from a gtkrc file. I also made a cad program that
has a dialog for changing the colours of the background grid and various
other drawing objects.