Re: Changing the foreground colour of combo boxes

[Daniel Kasak <dkasak nusconsulting com au>]

On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 13:55 +1300, Alwin Leerling wrote:

> 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.

Have you tried getting hold of the combo's child ( if it's a
ComboBoxEntry ) and modifying it?

Also you could try a different gtk theme.

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