RE: setting background color of eventbox ... how?

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 08:40, martyn 2 russell bt com wrote:
> > If somebody could point me to what I'm doing wrong here, that 
> > would be much
> > appreciated.
>
> This is how I did it:
>
>     GtkRcStyle *rc_style = NULL;
>     GdkColor color;
>
>     /* for green */
>     color.red = 0
>     color.green = 0xffff;
>     color.blue = 0;
>
>     rc_style = gtk_rc_style_new();
>
>     rc_style->bg[GTK_STATE_NORMAL] = color;
>     rc_style->color_flags[GTK_STATE_NORMAL] |= GTK_RC_BG;
>
>     gtk_widget_modify_style(cd->controls.eventbox_cd_duration,rc_style);
>
>     gtk_rc_style_unref(rc_style);   

Why not simply 

 gtk_widget_modify_bg (widget, GTK_STATE_NORMAL, &color);

See:

 http://ometer.com/gtk-colors.html

Regards,
                                                Owen