gtk_widget_modify_bg() and statusbar

[Sylvain Vedrenne <sylvain vedrenne free fr>]

Hi,

In my Gtkmm application, I would like the "background" to be black and the
statusbar to be of the standard color (grey, in my configuration).

I would like to find out how to avoid the statusbar to be the same color as the
widget behind (except for the resize grip which is Ok).

It seems to work using Xfc (another C++ port),
but I cannot find out how to make it work using Gtkmm.

The sample code below (Gtk+ only) shows what the problem is, using red and
green. In this example, the desired color for the statusbar is green.

Thanks in advance for any help.
Sylvain.

#include <gtk/gtk.h>

static void
on_destroy (GtkWidget * widget, gpointer data)
{
    gtk_main_quit ();
}

int
main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
    GtkWidget *window;
    GtkWidget *widget;

    gtk_init (&argc, &argv);
    window = gtk_window_new (GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL);
    gtk_container_set_border_width (GTK_CONTAINER (window), 20);
    gtk_window_set_default_size (GTK_WINDOW (window), 200, 100);
    g_signal_connect (G_OBJECT (window), "destroy",
                      G_CALLBACK (on_destroy), NULL);

widget = gtk_statusbar_new(); /* color problem using gtk_statusbar */
//widget = gtk_label_new ("Hello, World"); /* problem also using gtk_label */
//widget = gtk_button_new(); /* no problem using gtk_button */

GdkColor my_red;
my_red.red = 0xffff;
my_red.green = 0x0000;
my_red.blue = 0x0f00;
gtk_widget_modify_base( window, 0, &my_red );
gtk_widget_modify_bg( window, 0, &my_red );
gtk_widget_modify_fg( window, 0, &my_red );

GdkColor my_green; /* I would like the statusbar to be of that color! */
my_green.red = 0x0000;
my_green.green = 0xffff;
my_green.blue = 0x0f00;

gtk_widget_modify_base( widget, 0, &my_green );
gtk_widget_modify_bg( widget, 0, &my_green );
gtk_widget_modify_fg( widget, 0, &my_green );

    gtk_container_add (GTK_CONTAINER (window), widget);
    gtk_widget_show_all (window);
    gtk_main ();
    return 0;
}


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