Re: can't set background color for Gtk::Entry

[Akos Maroy <darkeye tyrell hu>]

Bob Caryl wrote:
> Your code doesn't work because you are not modifying the object that
> actually renders the editable cell within the entry.  You need to
> retrieve the Pango layout for the entry and modify the background color
> attribute of the layout.  The following URL is a good place to start
> delving into this:
>
> http://www.gtkmm.org/gtkmm2/docs/reference/html/classPango_1_1Layout.html
>
> Hope this helps a little.

I did look at the Pango layout, but the word 'color' does not appear on 
that page anywhere. I also looked at the AttrList, Context, etc. 
structures referenced on this page, but they don't contain any 
color-related information either.

am I missing something?