Changing the foreground color of a progress bar

[Douglas Phillipson <dougp intermind net>]

The archives seem to always point to:

 GdkColor color;

  gdk_color_parse ("red", &color);

  gtk_widget_modify_fg (widget, GTK_STATE_NORMAL, &color);

This works fine for the background color with:

  gtk_widget_modify_bg (widget, GTK_STATE_NORMAL, &color);

But the foreground color is unaffected by the "fg" version of this API 
call.  Has anyone seen a workaround for this problem?  Do I need to 
resort to creating a custom progress bar?  Anyone done this?

Thanks

Doug P