Re: modify widget fonts

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 14:54 -0400, MK wrote:
> I tried to do this using the widget::modify_font() method, my attempt
> is here:
> 
> http://www.gtkforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=5961&sid=f3549748cd4d9c904e6db5afe1678951
> 
> but that does not work and no one seems to have any thots.  Perhaps
> this is only for text and entry widgets?  Or what is modify_font for?

It's very difficult to change fonts and colors of widgets. You often
need to put the widget inside a Gtk::EventBox and you often need to
understand what child widgets are inside the widget.

This gives some idea of what I had to do to make it work generically.
Maybe it will give you some things to try:
http://git.gnome.org/browse/glom/tree/glom/utility_widgets/layoutwidgetbase.cc#n89

(For advanced readers, I complained about part of the problem here:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2010-January/msg00059.html
)
 
> What I specifically want to do is set some messages to bold in a
> StatusBar, but I may also want to (eg) set the text color/style on
> certain buttons.  
> 
> Which there must be a way to do that.  Anyone hints? :)
> 


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