Re: [gtk-list] GdkColor and styles

[Rob Huffstedtler <rob bagpipe com>]

I think you need to use base instead of bg.  That was the case for me.
I have no idea why.

On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Matthew D Allen
wrote:

> 
> I've been reading back through Harlow and looking at style examples - i've
> got everything coded, but there are a few things that refuse to work.  For
> example, if I set the background color (in some_style->bg[1..5]) to an
> off-white color, what usually results is a very whitish color where you
> can only see the actual color difference on the borders of widgets where
> there is mostly a horizontal divider.  
> 
> Example:  Using GdkColor {0, 0xffff, 0xf5f5, 0xeeee} (translated from HTML
> color #FFF5EE, hopefully the translation is right) the result is a very
> much white background, but borders that have a tinge of "Seashell" which
> is what the color is supposed to be.
> 
> What's the first field for in the GdkColor?  Is it intensity?  I've only
> ever seen code examples where that value is 0.  Is there something there
> that I can play with?  I've been primarily playing with the gimp, filling
> with certain values, grabbing their hex numbers and inserting them into
> the app.  This never works right though  same problem as above.
> 
> Anybody have any suggestions?
> 
> David
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