Re: Change label text color in Gtk 1+

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Apr 15, 2005, at 7:10 AM, David Morel wrote:

> All I want is have an individual text label turn red in a window ! How
> simpler can it get ? It would most certainly be so easy in GTK2+, but I
> have no choice right now :-(

That's unfortunate.  It's trivial in gtk2.  You should port at the 
earliest opportunity.

Your problem is likely that the Gtk::Label is just inheriting its 
parent's style, and thus doesn't have one of its own for you to dork 
with.  I can't seem to find a copy of this code that hasn't been ported 
to gtk2-perl, but it goes something like this:

  # dupe parent widget's style -- a label isn't guaranteed to have one 
of its own
  my $newstyle = $window->get_style-copy;
  # set up the new style the way you want.
  $font = Gtk::Gdk::Font->load 
("-*-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*");
  $newstyle->font ($font);
  $newstyle->fg (0, $newcolor);  # labels draw text in fg color
  # explicitly tell the label to use this new style
  $label->set_style ($newstyle);

the new style object can be shared among all the labels you want to 
look the same.

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