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User7723337
User7723337

Reputation: 12018

How to change background color of GtkTextView?

How to change background color of GtkTextView? I tried with normal widget set bg functionality but gtk is just changing border color of GtkText View.

Plus can some some please explain me with simple example, that how to change Text Color/Font/Text Size in GtkTextView (Whole text in GtkTextView)?

I fond some examples but they are not working..

Thnaks, PP.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 9018

Answers (3)

Emmanuel Touzery
Emmanuel Touzery

Reputation: 9173

As of gtk3, I believe the proper way to do that is through CSS. Register a gtk style sheet though GtkCssProvider, then you can write this CSS:

textview text {
  background-color: @theme_bg_color;
}

We can see the relevant CSS nodes in the documentation for GtkTextView. In this case I put @theme_bg_color which is an adwaita CSS variable, but you can as well put anything that goes in a usual CSS file, like red or #ff0000.

Upvotes: 1

SO Stinks
SO Stinks

Reputation: 3408

gtk_widget_override_background_color()

This the GTK 3.x+ way (until GTK 3.16). From

https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/unstable/GtkWidget.html#gtk-widget-modify-base

"gtk_widget_modify_base has been deprecated since version 3.0 and should not be used in newly-written code. Use gtk_widget_override_background_color() instead"

UPDATE: thegtknerd notes that this method too is now deprecated and it has been since 3.16.

Upvotes: 5

user173973
user173973

Reputation: 

gtk_widget_modify_base()

http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/unstable/GtkWidget.html#gtk-widget-modify-base

Upvotes: 4

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