Re: setting a button label overwrites label's color?

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 15:23 -0500, Tim Flechtner wrote:
> hello gtkmmers,
>   i have an object of Gtk::Button, in which i set the object's label's 
> color by calling code like:
> 
> void setButton(Gtk::Button& button, std::string& s, Gdk::Color color)
> {
>   b.get_child()->modify_fg(Gtk::STATE_NORMAL, color);
>   b.set_label(s);
> }
> 
> after this code executes, the button's label has reverted to the default 
> color for label text.  i believe that the call to set_label resets its 
> color.  if i invert the order of the two lines in the above function, i 
> get the color i therein.  i would *really* like to be able to updated 
> the contents of the label without the color (and possibly other 
> characteristics, such as font) resetting.  does anyone know how i can do so?

This sounds like a GTK+ bug that you should report in bugzilla. You
should be able to work around it in the meantime.

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