Re: [gtk-list] Re: clist row color

[Sven LUTHER <luther maxime u-strasbg fr>]

On Mon, Jun 07, 1999 at 10:00:51PM -0700, Ron Forrester wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 07, 1999 at 10:54:38PM -0500, Key, Chris wrote:
> > background color to this color?  The code I have should be doing it (no
> > compile/run errors), but it does not update the row, so I am not sure if the
> > color attribute is being set.
> 
> Funny, I just had the same problem, but got it fixed after looking at
> the text example. Here is the gist of it:
> 
> 
> 	GdkColor gamestalker_red    = {0, 0xffff, 0, 0};
> 	GdkColor gamestalker_green  = {0, 0, 0xcccc, 0};
> 	GdkColor gamestalker_blue   = {0, 0, 0, 0xffff};
> 
> 	GdkColormap *colorMap = gdk_colormap_get_system();
> 
> 	gdk_color_alloc(colorMap, &gamestalker_red);
> 	gdk_color_alloc(colorMap, &gamestalker_blue);
> 	gdk_color_alloc(colorMap, &gamestalker_green);
> 
> 	gtk_clist_set_foreground(GTK_CLIST(list), row, &gamestalker_blue);
> 
> 
> Note that this is test code. Please check all return values
> appropriately. The sticking points for me were:
> 
> 1) I was initialzing the red, green, and blue values as 8 bit's per,
> when they need to be 16 bits per (right everyone?).
> 
> 2) I started out using gdk_colormap_alloc_color which didn't seem to
> be working for me.

Strange, it woked fine for me, after a lot of effort. What value did you give
for writeable and best_match ?

Friendly,

Sven LUTHER