Re: highlighting control labels

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw netspace net au>]

Marisa DeMeglio wrote:
> Russell Shaw wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Ok, I see how I can do this on a GtkLabel, for example.  But how do I 
> get the label object for a button?  It seems like set/get methods just 
> give you a text string for the label's character data and not the object 
> itself.

label=gtk_bin_get_child(GTK_BIN(button))