You want to use something more like this:
widget_style = widget.get_style().copy()
widget_style.bg[STATE_NORMAL] = widget.get_colormap().alloc(0xffff,0,0)
widget.set_style(widget_style)
James.
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On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, J.W. Bizzaro wrote:
> So I try something like this?
>
> widget_style = widget.get_style().copy
> widget.set_style(widget_style).bg[STATE_NORMAL] = (1, 0, 0)
>
> But I get this:
>
> TypeError: gtk_widget_set_style, argument 2: expected GtkStyle,
> builtin_function_or_method found
>
> Is this the "style's copy() method"?
>
> widget.get_style().copy
>
> One might also think this would work:
>
> widget_style = widget.get_style()
> widget.set_style(widget_style).bg[STATE_NORMAL] = (1, 0, 0)
>
> But I get this:
>
> AttributeError: 'None' object has no attribute 'bg'
>
>
> :-)
> Jeff
>
>
>
> James Henstridge wrote:
> >
> > To copy a style, use the style's copy() method. THen using get_style()
> > and set_style() you should be able to modify styles as much as you want.
> > I don't have a python example of this, but there is an example of doing
> > this in my gnorpm package (specifically the checksig.c file).
> >
> > James.
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> > On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, J.W. Bizzaro wrote:
> >
> > > Some of the style-setting functions of gtk are in pygtk, such as
> > >
> > > widget.set_style(stylename).fg[STATE_NORMAL] = (1, 0, 0)
> > > widget.get_style().fg[STATE_NORMAL]
> > >
> > > But the problem is with "stylename".
> > >
> > > set_style expects a GdkStyle type to be passed, but how do we get that?
> > >
> > > Gtk has these 4 functions:
> > >
> > > gtk_widget_get_default_style ()
> > > gtk_style_copy (stylename)
> > > gtk_widget_push_style (stylename)
> > > gtk_widget_pop_style (stylename)
> > >
> > > which don't seem to be included in pygtk.
> > >
> > > What am I to do? I want to switch styles on the fly. I am using a style rc
> > > file, as is used with the example testgtk. But I need to switch between them
> > > during runtime or be able to change parts of the default style at the very
> > > least.
> > >
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