Re: Question about CellRendererText foreground font color change...

["R. Douglas Barbieri" <dooglio gmail com>]

So, no takers? :-) I guess I'm on my own on this one...

On 11/5/05, R. Douglas Barbieri <dooglio gmail com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a TreeView widget and I'm trying to get the font color in a
> column to change to something other than black.
>
> For example, say I create a column:
>
> Gtk::TreeView::Column* col = Gtk::manage(
>     new Gtk::TreeView::Column( "First Column"));
> col->pack_start( columns.first_column, TRUE );
>
>
> Then I grab the cell renderers for the newly created column and
> convert to a CellRendererText pointer (because columns.first_column is
> a TreeModelColumn<Glib::ustring> type).
>
> std::vector<Gtk::CellRenderer*> rends = col->get_cell_renderers();
> Gtk::CellRendererText* name_rend = rends[0];
>
>
> Now, I want to set the background color. No problem.
>
> name_rend->property_background() = "red";
>
> This will produce a red column with black text printed over it.
>
> But if I try to set the foreground color, like so:
>
> name_rend->property_foreground() = "green";
>
> ...the text stays black. I've even tried setting the
> property_foreground_set() property to "true" but that seems to do
> nothing. I've looked at the Pango::FontDescription to see if that
> would help me, but it has no reference at all to color of any kind.
> The only thing I could find was the Pango::AttrColor, but I have no
> idea how to get that set in the CellRendererText object.
>
> So...how *do* I set the foreground font color?  I'm obviously not
> getting it. :-)
> --
> R. Douglas Barbieri
> doug dooglio net
>


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R. Douglas Barbieri
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