Re: setting background color to drawing area

[Mark Leisher <mleisher crl nmsu edu>]

    Billy> I've been looking throught the archived mail but havent found
    Billy> anything but discussions about doing this.  I'm just on my 2nd day
    Billy> with gtk and need some assistance.

Setting it is easy.  Changing it a lot seems to be trickier.  Anyway:

  GdkColor newbg;
  GtkStyle *style;

  style = gtk_style_copy(gtk_widget_get_style(widget));
  style->bg[GTK_STATE_NORMAL] = newbg;
  gtk_widget_set_style(widget, style);

You have get the color you want by using the GDK color routines first.

Also, I'm not sure if the copied style needs to be ref'ed or unref'ed.
Haven't looked at it in any detail.
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