Re: How to enter a floating-point number ?

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw netspace net au>]

Freddie Unpenstein wrote:
> Out of interest.....
>
> What is the "proper" way to change the text colour of Entry, SpinButton and CheckButton widgets?
>
> I have a form which displays an entry from a database, and I wish to provide feedback on eroneous field 
> values much as was mentioned in your post.
>
> Currently I validate the fields, and if they're invalid, simply set the foreground colour of the widget to 
> red.  This doesn't work all that well with the widgets mentioned above, however.  SpinButton fg colour is 
> actually used for the little arrows, which actually doesn't look too bad...  but it doesn't really fit the 
> goal.  And with CheckButton widgets, it seems to (occasionally) set the colour of the little dotted box 
> around the outside used to indicate keyboard focus.  ;)
>
> Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

GtkLabel has no window, so you need to put it into a GtkEventBox and change
the colour of that.