Change background color of a GtkWindow?

[thomas-worm]

Hello,


How can I change the background color of a GtkWindow?

[cweiske]

Get the style of the window with get_style, make a copy of this and set the background color property. Then set the style of the window to the copied and modified style object.

The Minesweeper game on the gnope channel has an example; it sets the background color of some buttons.

[thomas-worm]

Thank you! It works fine!





But the Minesweeper application crashed (after displaying a blanc window for one second) on my PC with this Windows XP error dialog asking if I want to send an error report to Microsoft.

[cweiske]

[rgljr]

For Those Looking to do this here is code that works for me.
Had to dig this out thought others could use it.

<?php

/* This takes the instance of entry class and grabs what has been entered
* into the textbox and saves it to $gettext. The instance of the label
* class is then set with the text saved from the $entry class */
function set_name($label, $entry)
{
$gettext = $entry->get_text();
$label->set_text($gettext);
}

/* Creation of the window */
$window = &new GtkWindow();
$window->set_name('main window');
$window->set_title('Introduction to PHP-GTK');
$window->set_size_request(400, 300);
$window->connect('destroy', 'destroy');
$window->connect('delete-event', 'delete_event');
$window->set_border_width(10);
$window->set_position(GTK::WIN_POS_CENTER);


// here's the window color change to a red window

$winStyle=$window->get_style();
$winStyle->bg[Gtk::STATE_NORMAL] = GdkColor::parse('#F00');
$window->set_style($winStyle);

//


/* Creates the frame */
$frame = &new GtkFrame('A Simple Update Program');
$window->add($frame);

/* Creates the Vertical box for putting things in. */
$box1 = &new GtkVBox();
$frame->add($box1);
$box1->show();

/* Creates the area where will be updating the information */
$label = &new GtkLabel('');
$box1->pack_start($label);
$label->show();

/* Creates a horizontal line */
$separator = &new GtkHSeparator();
$box1->pack_start($separator);
$separator->show();

/* Creates the textbox for the user to enter in the information */
$entry = &new GtkEntry();
$box1->pack_start($entry);
$entry->show();

/* Creates the horizontal box for across the bottom of the window */
$box2 = &new GtkHButtonBox();
$box2->set_layout(GTK::BUTTONBOX_SPREAD);
$box1->add($box2);
$box1->show();

/* Sets up one button that is in the button box */
$button = &new GtkButton('Click to Update the Label');
$button->connect('clicked', 'set_name', $label, $entry);
$box2->pack_start($button);
$button->show();

/* Sets up the other button in the button box */
$button = &new GtkButton('Close Window');
$button->connect_simple('clicked', 'destroy');
$box2->pack_start($button);
$button->show();

/* Closes off the frame by showing it */
$frame->show();

/* Tells the window to show all elements */
$window->show_all();

/* Finishes off the entire program */
Gtk::main();

?>

[syn]

my app extends GladeXml (final class App extends GladeXml {})

if i try to change the color of wdo_main, the

[cweiske]

Before you can set or modify the style, you need to copy it
$style = $style->copy()
Otherwise it doesn't work at all.

If it still crashes, can you make the a script with no more code than the one needed to cause the crash and post that here?

[syn]

Hi,

$style_temp = $style_original->copy(); works fine.

Mmmm, sometimes i think, using GladeXML isnt the best thing. Is GladeXML a part of the PHP-GTK2 developement, or is it done by another group?

First i had problems with set_events()... now using add_events().. and now the get_style problem. GladeXML is cool, but it isnt cool that there are other steps to do for solving problems...

Regards,
andreas

[cweiske]

[kksou]

php-gtk2 makes things much simpler as compared with php-gtk.

If you are using php-gtk2, here's a one-liner to set the background of a GtkWindow: