Re: Setting widget styles

[Stefan Kost <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

Tony Houghton schrieb:
> I want to change the cursor/caret aspect ratio for a widget on the fly.
> The docs say you should "first call gtk_widget_get_modifier_style(),
> make your modifications to the returned style, then call
> gtk_widget_modify_style() with that style." The trouble is I can't find
> any way to modify a style. I must be missing something, otherwise
> there's no point in having GtkRcStyle in the API at all.
>
> As the docs refer to "style properties" I've tried calling
> g_object_set_property(..., "cursor-aspect-ratio", ...) on the GtkRcStyle
> but I got an error that the property name doesn't exist or something
> like that.

style-properties are not g-object properties :/ And usually they are read-only. 
It sucks because I fails to see why most apps ever would want to read them, if 
they can't modify them ...

Stefan