Re: Changing [entire] background of a GtkTextView

[Olexiy Avramchenko <olexiy irtech cn ua>]

Vadim Berezniker wrote:

> I want to change the entire background of a GtkTextView to the 
> background of its parent container. Using Tags, I can only change the 
> background of the parts of the view with text.
> Changing the background using the widget style has no effect. (The 
> only thing that seems possible to change is the text color).


Consider gtk_widget_modify_base() function:

GdkColor color;
   color.red = 0xffff;
   color.blue = 0xeeee;
   color.green = 0xcccc;
   gtk_widget_modify_base(GTK_WIDGET(your_text_view), GTK_STATE_NORMAL, 
&color);

Olexiy