Thank you for your reply. Can't the programme just change the relevant aspects of the theme, to change the way the progress bar is drawn under certain circumstances?
Tom ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Yann LEYDIER [[email protected]] Sent: 27 August 2011 12:33 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Progress bar colours Hi ! Depending on your Gtk theme, progress bars can be animated pixbufs, so I doubt you can change the color programmatically. If I had to do this, I would create a custom widget containing a drawing area… yann On 27/08/11 13:28, Thomas Harty wrote: > Hi, > > I want to use a progress bar to display temperatures and it'd be very > useful to be able to make bar change colour to indicate any problems. > I've done some reading and the best references (e.g. > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg13767.html and > http://markmail.org/message/zirxleljlithtiel) I could find suggest that > it should be possible to change the colour of the bar using > override_background_color with the state flag PRELIGHT and to change the > color of the trough using override_background_color with the state flag > NORMAL. However, when I do this, I find that the > override_background_color with prelight does nothing and with the normal > flag, it changes the colour of both the slider and the trough. > > Some of the comments I've seen make it seem as thought this should be > done using style files, but I couldn't find anything explaining how. > > Any light that anyone could throw on this would be appreciated. > > Tom > > > _______________________________________________ > gtkmm-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtkmm-list _______________________________________________ gtkmm-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtkmm-list _______________________________________________ gtkmm-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtkmm-list
