Re: Changing the background color of a window

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 11:14:32PM -0500, José Vitor de Santana wrote:
>   But indeed it must have been parsed by 
>   gdk_color_parse before feeding it to
>   gtk_widget_modify_bg. That's what I found.

No, definitely gdk_color_parse isn't required. 
All gdk_color_parse does is fill in color.red, color.green,
color.blue, which you already did.
     
>      red = g_rand_int_range(my_rand,0,65536);
>      green = g_rand_int_range(my_rand,0,65536);
>      blue = g_rand_int_range(my_rand,0,65536);
>      rgb=g_strdup_printf("#%02X%02X%02X",
>         red,green,blue);
> 
>      gdk_color_parse(rgb,&color);

Definitely the printf/parse here is not needed.

Havoc