Re: Setting background colour

[Billy O'Connor <billyoc gnuyork org>]

"Thomas Keaney" <se40319 cs may ie> writes:

> How would I change the background colour and button colours within my interface?

#include <gtk/gtk.h>

int main(void)
{
    GtkWidget *window;
    GtkWidget *button;

    gtk_init (&argc, &argv);
    
    window = gtk_window_new (GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL);

    button = gtk_button_new_with_label ("Hello World");
    gtk_container_add (GTK_CONTAINER (window), button);

    GdkColor color;

    color.red = 65535;
    color.blue = 0;
    color.green = 65535;
    gtk_widget_modify_bg ( button, GTK_STATE_NORMAL, &color );

    GtkWidget *child_label;
    child_label = gtk_bin_get_child (GTK_BIN (button) );

    color.red = 0;
    color.blue = 65535;
    color.green = 0;
    gtk_widget_modify_fg ( child_label, GTK_STATE_NORMAL, &color );

    /* reuse text foreground color for window background */
    gtk_widget_modify_bg ( window, GTK_STATE_NORMAL, &color );    

    gtk_widget_show (button);
    gtk_widget_show (window);

    gtk_main ();
    
    return 0;
}