Re: Changing the background color of a Label

["Jean-Christophe Berthon" <jean-christophe berthon cgey com>]

Thank you very much :-)))
it did work!
Great thanks :-)


Best regards,
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Jean-Christophe Berthon



----- Original Message -----
From: "Skip Montanaro" <skip pobox com>
To: "Jean-Christophe Berthon" <jberthon capgemini fr>
Cc: "Gtk List" <gtk-list gnome org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 12:53 PM
Subject: Re: Changing the background color of a Label


> (gtk-devel-list removed from the cc list.)
>
>     > I'm imagining simply a label with a background color (usually Grey)
>     > and a foreground color (the color of the writing usually black). But
I
>     > want to change this! I've managed to change the foreground color to
>     > white but didn't manage to change the background to green ...
>
> GtkLabels are no-window widgets, so they take on the background of their
> container.  To get your labels to have different backgrounds, add them to
> GtkEventBox widgets and change the background color of them.
>
> --
> Skip Montanaro (skip pobox com - http://www.mojam.com/)