Unable to set bg color of gtk toolbutton

[Sid Kapoor <sidkapoor2000 gmail com>]

Hi all,

 

I want to set the background colors of the buttons on my panel. Different colors for different states (normal, active and prelight). As the background colors of the labels,buttons,etc. cannot be set directly plcaed on a GtkWidget, I placed a GtkEventBox to start with. On this Event Box I placed a toolbar with 6 items. On five of them I placed the 5 different event boxes over which I placed the toolbuttons.On the 6th item of the toolbar, I placed a fixed and placed 2 event boxes over it, over which I placed 2 buttons. The widget tree looks like shown below:

 

eventbox1

 toolbar1

  toolitem1

   eventbox2

    toolbutton1

  toolitem2

   eventbox3

    toolbutton2

  toolitem3

   eventbox4

    toolbutton3

  toolitem4

   eventbox5

    toolbutton4

  toolitem5

   eventbox6

    toolbutton5

  toolitem6

   fixed99

    eventbox7

     button20

    eventbox8

     button21

 

Now I set the colors for the normal, active and prelight states for all the 5 toolbuttons as well as 2 buttons by gtk_widget_modify_bg command.

But eventually I am able to set the correct colors for only the buttons on toolitem6, while the 5 toolbuttons did not reflect the changes in color as specified.

What can be the reason for that. Am I missing something in the widget tree? Or is there any other method to set the bg colors for the toolbuttons ?

Any related help will be useful. Thanks in advance.

 

Sid