Re: [gtk-list] Re: background colors

["Marin Purgar - PMC" <pmc iskon hr>]

Scott Stone wrote:

>On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Bryan D Jones wrote:
>
>> Could someone be so kind as to tell me how to change the background
colors
>> of a text_entry widget and scolled_window widget.  It's not documented in
>> the tutorial.  Thank you much.
>
>You have to mess with the rcfiles.  Check out the section in the docs on
>the rcfile format.  This was baffling me too - I was looking through all
>the gtk source thinking, "How the he** do I change widget colors??", when
>I stumbled upon that.  You'd think that this procedure would be documented
>better.. it's not intuitive to me that I should have to use an .rc file to
>change colors.


Check out docs/styles.txt. You can set the style of the widget trough .rc
files but also in runtime using styles.

bb4now,
PMC