Re: How to get Colors?

[Igor Korot <ikorot01 gmail com>]

Hi, Paul,

On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 8:26 AM, Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com> wrote:
> Your mistake is imagining that there are "system colors" and that you can do
> "custom rendering" that will use them.
>
> GTK is largely designed around a Linux model in which the ability of the
> user to dynamically alter the appearance of applications (and the desktop)
> is taken more seriously than on other platforms. Colors are left up to
> "themes" which the user may change at any time. Some themes may, internally,
> define some kind of color palette, but they do not expose this to
> applications. You're expected to allow the theme to do its job with
> rendering.

But then there should be some kind of predefined set of colors for
each specific theme,
which can be retrieved by some function.

Thank you.

> On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 8:01 PM, The Devils Jester
> <thedevilsjester gmail com> wrote:
> > I am trying to get general GTK system colors for use in custom rendering
> > operations.  In MSW, I would get these colors through a function like
> > GetSysColor, but GTK does not appear to have such a function.
> >
> > The only way that comes to mind, to get a bunch of common system colors,
> > is to create a bunch of widgets (one of each type that has a color I need),
> > parent said widget, and make sure its realized, using
> > gtk_style_context_get_color.  This seems like an awful lot of overhead (and
> > a bit overkill) just to get some colors.  Am I missing some more direct
> > method?
> >
> > I am using GTK3.
> >
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