changing font, color, size, etc. in a GtkEntry

[Eric Wajnberg <eric wajnberg sophia inra fr>]

Hi there,

I have a simple problem for weeks that I remain unable to solve.

I simply want to modify the font, color, size, etc. of the characters 
entered while they are typed in a GtkEntry. I am coding with GTK 2.24.0.

Looking around on the web, I found several possible functions to do 
that, some of them seem to be specific to GTK3, however. I found - and 
tried to play with - things like:

gtk_entry_set_attributes
gtk_widget_modify_text
gtk_widget_modify_base
gtk_widget_modify_font
gtk_widget_create_pango_layout
gtk_widget_create_pango_context

Some of them lead me to define and to argument a pointer to a struct of 
type PangoFontDescription or GtkStyle. Hence, it seems that I also need 
to use function like, e.g., pango_font_description_set_weight, etc., but 
I'm not fully sure about this.

I remained unable to sort this out, and some of these functions are even 
not recognized in my coding environment..

Hence, I just have now no idea about how to solve this. Code examples 
(for example, like here: 
http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/GTK+ProgrammingTips.html#TEXTBOXESFONTS) and/or 
explanations would be more than welcomed!

Thanks for any help in this.

Cheers, Eric.

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