RE: [gtk-list] Re: Background color in GtkText

[Robin Ericsson <lobbin lobbin ml org>]

On 07-Sep-98 Mario Motta wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Sep 1998, tile@primenet.com wrote:
>>
>>
>>This is the step in the right direction, but you're using the wrong array.
>>Here's how I would do it...
>>
>>GtkStyle *style;
>>
>>...
>>
>>style = gtk_style_new ();
>>style->fg[GTK_STATE_NORMAL] = foreground;
>>style->text[GTK_STATE_NORMAL] = foreground;
>>style->base[GTK_STATE_NORMAL] = background; /* base not bg */
>>
>>gtk_widget_set_style (GTK_WIDGET (entry), style);
>>
>>Hope this helps.
>>
>>
> this seems to work for entry widgets, unfortunately not for text ones, (but
> should) anyway thanks for the answer, with pleasure i see that sometime
> someone in this list has the time to answer to numerous questions. A bit of
> statistics: i'm into the list since July and there three times less answers
> than questions.
> sincerely.

This is how I do it (almost, check the bezerk code for how the colors work):

--- Code ---

  GtkWidget   *text_field;
  GdkColor     color_black;
  GdkColormap *cmap;

  color_black.red   = 0;
  color_black.green = 0;
  color_black.blue  = 0;

  cmap = gdk_colormap_get_system ();
  gdk_color_alloc(cmap, &color_black)
  gdk_window_set_background (GTK_TEXT (text_field)->text_area, &color_black);

--- End Code ---

And I think you have to do gtk_widget_show (); on the text widget before
setting the background with gdk_window_set_background, but I'm not sure of that.

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