Re: Changing styles dynamically

[Mike Aubury <mike aubit com>]

There is a gtk_rc_reparse_all (or something similar) - I've tried that - but 
as this is parsed from a string I think its being ignored....


On Thursday 05 February 2004 3:37 pm, Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
> Mike Aubury wrote:
> > Is there any easy way to globally update the style ? (ie without having
> > to go through every widget using that style)
>
>      I don't know how it works (never done it) but there was discussion
> of a gtk-theme-changer application on these lists and apperently the WM
> sends an Atom (XAtoms I think ?) See GdkAtoms:
>
> http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gdk/gdk-Properties-and-Atoms.html
>
> of type READ_RCFILES (or something to that effect) and then gtk+ will
> re-read the files already previously parsed by gtk_rc_parse(). (I guess
> gtk+ keeps a list of filenames from gtk_rc_parse() for that purpose).
>
> HTH,
>                        -Tristan
>
> PS:
>     Can anyone tell me where I can find a list of these 'atom's
> and what effect they have on gtk+ apps when they are sent/recieved ?
>
>
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