Re: highlighting control labels

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw netspace net au>]

Marisa DeMeglio wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for a way to highlight a control's text label (if exists) 
> when that control receives focus.  Is there a way to adjust the color 
> properties of a label at runtime (not via theme) ?  If I can get it to 
> be highlighted then that will give some very basic JFW (jaws for windows 
> screen reader) support, since JFW pays attention to the MS  windows 
> highlight color.  Already works for reading menus via gtk-wimp, now we 
> need to extend it to the rest of the app, or as much as possible.  Any 
> ideas would be much appreciated.

With access to the widgets text buffer, you can usually use pango
markup or attributes to change things like colour.