java-gnome-developer

[Java-gnome-developer] overrideBackground method on Buttons

[Nate D. <nat...@gm...>]

Hi all,

I am trying to make my button green. Can someone please tell me what am I
doing wrong ?

import org.gnome.gdk.RGBA;
import org.gnome.gtk.Button;
import org.gnome.gtk.Gtk;
import org.gnome.gtk.StateFlags;
import org.gnome.gtk.Window;

public class Foo
{
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Window window;
        Gtk.init(args);
        window = new Window();
        Button button = new Button("Foo");
        button.overrideBackground(StateFlags.NORMAL, RGBA.GREEN);
        window.add(button);
        window.showAll();
        Gtk.main();
    }
}


Thanks,
Nate

Re: [Java-gnome-developer] overrideBackground method on Buttons

[Andrew C. <an...@op...>]

On Fri, 2012-07-27 at 20:39 +0100, Nate Donmez wrote:

> I am trying to make my button green. Can someone please tell me what
> am I doing wrong ?

Nothing, so far as I can tell.

I ran your code, and tried

      * adding the overrideBackground() call to the parent Window
        [worked to set the background outside the Button, but didn't
        change the button background] and
      * extracting the Button's child Label and setting the background
        there [did not work].
      * I even tried adding an EventBox in between the Label and the
        Button [that didn't work either].

Not sure why it isn't doing what you think it should; I would have
expected it to. I'm sorta guessing that it is a themeing issue, but why
would button's drawing logic be so hard wired like this? like I said, I
should have thought it would work.

At this point I'd suggest coming to #java-gnome and then we can go to
#gtk+ together and see if we can find someone who knows what's up. Or
feel free to send an email to gtk-list directly if you like.

AfC
Sydney