Changing the foreground colour of combo boxes

[Alwin Leerling <leerling xtra co nz>]

Hi,

My program runs on a device on which it is very hard to see the current 
selected widget. I therefore wrote to functions 
"on_button_focus_in_event" and "on_button_focus_out_event" that set or 
reset the background color ( gtk_widget_modify_bg( widget, 
GTK_STATE_NORMAL, &color_active )  and gtk_widget_modify_bg( widget, 
GTK_STATE_NORMAL, NULL ) respectively ) and attached these callbacks to 
my buttons.

I tried the same trick with the combo boxes but the background does not 
change.

Anybody got any suggestions how I can change the color of a combo box 
when it gets the focus?

Thanks in advance


Alwin