Re: Background color problem

[Chuck Crisler <charles crisler comcast net>]

Rather than showing the window, call realize(). That does everything
that show() does EXCEPT make the window visible. Then you should be able
to get the background color. X doesn't send the communication to the
server until there is idle time OR you force it (by calling realize()).

On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 00:11 +0300, Vlad Volodin wrote:
> Sorry, Brian,
> but as I said before, I also can't get the correct GtkWindow
> background color before it is shown. why?
> (thank you for your reply)
>
> 2009/3/16 Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 cornell edu>:
> > Vlad Volodin wrote:
> >
> > > The canvas is white, and it doesn't have some kind of transparency.
> > > So, as I thought, I decided to fill it's background with color, got
> > > from it's GtkStyle. After some experiments I realized, that widgets
> > > (main window, container and GtkClutterEmbed) don't have needed color:
> >
> > You really just can't use this method at all.  Some widgets won't have a
> > color as a background; they'll have a pixmap.  You won't be able to paint it
> > using this method.
> >
> >        -brian
> >
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