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

["Tom Liu" <tom liu flextrade com>]

> 1)
>         colormap = gtk_widget_get_colormap(GTK_WIDGET(ebox));
>            if (gdk_color_parse("black", &g_col)){
>               if (gdk_colormap_alloc_color(colormap, &g_col, FALSE,
TRUE))
> {
>             gtk_widget_modify_bg (GTK_WIDGET(ebox), GTK_STATE_NORMAL,
> &g_col);
>         }
>     }
>
> No effect ..

As Owen told us:
        For all the gtk_*, use the RGB Color.
        For All the gdk_*, use the alloced color.

For your example:
        You don't need colormap and alloc_color.
        
You can fill the color by: 
        g_col.red=0;g_col.green=0;g_col.blue=0;
Then call 
        gtk_widget_modify_bg (GTK_WIDGET(ebox),
GTK_STATE_NORMAL,&g_col);