Re: gtk_widget_modify_bg on a GtkTextView

[James Curbo <james teyandei net>]

On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 23:13, Ari Pollak wrote:
> Hi, I'm currently using Gtk2-perl for a small application (I'm so glad
> I found this module, I put this off for a while becuase I thought there
> was no Gtk2 module, and doing this in C would have been incredibly
> time-consuming).
>
> My problem is that when trying to set the default background color of a
> GtkTextView, no change seems to take place. According to the API docs,
> you should be able to set the properties of an entire TextView with the
> gtk_widget functions. Gtk2::Widget->modify_font() works fine, but
> Gtk2::Widget->modify_bg() has no effect. Is this supposed to happen with
> a TextView? Any ideas? Following is some example code:
>
> my $window = Gtk2::Window->new ('toplevel');
> my $view = Gtk2::TextView->new;
> my $color = Gtk2::Gdk::Color->parse('green');
> $view->modify_bg('normal', $color);

Try $view->modify_base('normal', $color); here instead. modify_bg is for
widgets like buttons etc, but for text things you want to use
modify_base. From the API docs:

--
Sets the base color for a widget in a particular state. All other style
values are left untouched. The base color is the background color used
along with the text color (see gtk_widget_modify_text()) for widgets
such as GtkEntry and GtkTextView. See also gtk_widget_modify_style().
--

> $window->add($view);
> $window->show_all;
> Gtk2->main;
>
> What should happen is that the background color changes to green, but
> this never happens.

James