Setting Text BGcolor

[Rob Huffstedtler <rob bagpipe com>]

How do I go about setting the background colour of a text widget?  I
thought that it would be by creating a style and applying it to the
widget, somethine like:

	GtkStyle *defstyle;	/* The default style */
	GtkStyle *style;
	GdkColor black = { 0, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000};
	GdkColor white = { 0, 0xffff, 0xffff, 0xffff};
	gchar *msg = "This message is a placeholder.  Someday, an "
				 "actual status box will live here.";

	/* --Allocate the colors-- */
	gdk_color_alloc(gdk_colormap_get_system(), &white);
	gdk_color_alloc(gdk_colormap_get_system(), &black);

	defstyle = gtk_widget_get_default_style();
	style = gtk_style_copy(defstyle);
	
	/* Set the colours */
	style->fg[GTK_STATE_NORMAL] = white;
	style->text[GTK_STATE_NORMAL] = white;
	style->bg[GTK_STATE_NORMAL] = black;

	
	text = gtk_text_new(NULL, NULL);
	/* --Set the style of the widget-- */
	gtk_widget_set_style(GTK_WIDGET(text), style);


Which does seem to change the text color (I can't see the text anymore),
but the background is still white (the border of it now seems to be black,
though).


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