Changing background color of check / radio buttons

[Peter Krueger <pkrueger appss de>]

Hello,
I want to change the background color of some check and radio buttons.
My example program works fine for GTK_STATE_PRELIGHT and draws a green
background rectangle. But in GTK_STATE_NORMAL most of the widget is still
drawn with the default background color. I would like to get a red
rectangle like the green one in PRELIGHT.
I'm wondering why the background for these states behaves so different. I
can get this filled background color in state NORMAL too (like
the toggle button has) when I put my check and radio buttons inside event
boxes and set those background color.
But since it works in PRELIGHT, I guess that this should be somehow
possible without the help of additional widgets. Does anybody know how?

Regards...Peter

#include <gtk/gtk.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
  GtkWidget *pWindow, *pVBox, *pToggle, *pCheck, *pRadio;
  GtkRcStyle *pRcStyle;

  gtk_init(&argc, &argv);

  /* create main window and a vbox inside it */
  pWindow = gtk_window_new(GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL);
  gtk_container_set_border_width(GTK_CONTAINER(pWindow), 5);
  pVBox = gtk_vbox_new(0, 5);
  gtk_container_add(GTK_CONTAINER(pWindow), pVBox);

  /* create some buttons */
  pToggle = gtk_toggle_button_new_with_label("Togglebutton");
  pCheck = gtk_check_button_new_with_label ("Checkbutton");
  pRadio = gtk_radio_button_new_with_label(0, "Radiobutton");
  gtk_container_add(GTK_CONTAINER(pVBox), pToggle);
  gtk_container_add(GTK_CONTAINER(pVBox), pCheck);
  gtk_container_add(GTK_CONTAINER(pVBox), pRadio);

  /* modify style of buttons */
  pRcStyle = gtk_rc_style_new();
  gdk_color_parse("red", &pRcStyle->bg[GTK_STATE_NORMAL]);
  pRcStyle->color_flags[GTK_STATE_NORMAL] = GTK_RC_BG;
  gdk_color_parse("green", &pRcStyle->bg[GTK_STATE_PRELIGHT]);
  pRcStyle->color_flags[GTK_STATE_PRELIGHT] = GTK_RC_BG;
  gtk_widget_modify_style(pToggle, pRcStyle);
  gtk_widget_modify_style(pCheck, pRcStyle);
  gtk_widget_modify_style(pRadio, pRcStyle);

  gtk_widget_show_all(pWindow);
  gtk_main();
  return 0;
}
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