Re: Changing the style of a scrollbar

[Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com>]

On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 16:18 -0700, konton wrote:
> How do you change the look and size of a scroll bar?  I have a
> GtkScrolledWindow that holds a GtkTreeView, and I want the scroll bars
> to have different images and be thinner.  I tried setting the style in
> .gtkrc for *GtkScrolledWindow* and I can get the color to change sort
> of and even have somewhat of a background image overlayed on the
> graphics, but it doesn't look like that's how I accomplish my task.
> 
> In the source code to GtkScrolledWindow I can see where it draws the
> shadow around the contained widget, but not where it gets the up
> arrow, down arrow, and slider images for the scroll bars.
> gtkvscrollbar.c doesn't seem to have any graphics-related stuff in it.
> 
> This is not for a desktop application so I don't care about the user's
> theme preference.

this is all done by the theme engine in use. you won't find specific
code for it in GTK - instead the widget basically says "do the arrow
thing here" and the theme does it.

--p