Re: [gtkmm] widgets & colors

[Tassos Bassoukos <abas aix meng auth gr>]

Igor Jovanovic wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I can't find a way to change the background color for widgets, for
> example some Toolbar or Entry widget. I can only change the color for
> Label with markup styles.
>
> Can anyone help me with this ?
>
> Thanks.

Hello,
first, let me say that from an UI perspective, custom colors should 
never be used, as they are inconsistent with the rest of the users desktop.

You could either
a) define the color programmatically for each of your widgets using
   Gtk::Style, which has been covered in the past in this meiling list,
   or
b) set the name of each widget that you want to colorize, create a
   custom rc file defining the attributes of each widget, then in your
   programm use Gtk::RC::add_default_file("/path/to/rc/file")[1]; before
   instanciating(sp?) them to apply the given styles.

HTH,
Tassos

[1] of Gtk::RC::parse_string for that matter.