Changing GtkButton color when GtkWindow is changed - c

Question

I am trying a simple sample Gtk program and using GtkTable to align my widgets.
My layout should be:
Window background is black. The buttons should be white while the text on the buttons should be black. All labels should be white so they can be seen against the black window background.
With this in mind. Here is what I have done so far.
Code:
#include <gtk/gtk.h>
#include <glib.h>
#include <stdlib.h> /* for atoi() and exit() */
#include <stdio.h> /* standard in and output*/
typedef struct cmd_widgets{
GtkWidget *button1;
GtkWidget *combo;
GtkWidget *label;
}my_cmd_widgets;
static gboolean close_application( GtkWidget *widget, GdkEvent *event, gpointer data )
{
gtk_main_quit ();
return FALSE;
}
static void UpdateChoice( GtkWidget *widget, gpointer data)
{
my_cmd_widgets *widgrp;
widgrp = (my_cmd_widgets *)data;
gchar *text = gtk_combo_box_get_active_text(GTK_COMBO_BOX(widgrp->combo));
GString *val = g_string_new("You have chosen : ");
g_string_append(val, text);
gtk_label_set_text(GTK_LABEL(widgrp->label), val->str);
g_free(text);
}
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
GtkWidget *window;
GtkWidget *table;
GtkWidget *label1;
GtkWidget *label2;
GtkStyle *style;
GtkWidget *align;
my_cmd_widgets grp_widgets;
GtkWidget *image;
gtk_init(&argc, &argv);
gtk_rc_parse("fonts.rc");
window = gtk_window_new(GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL);
gtk_window_set_position(GTK_WINDOW(window), GTK_WIN_POS_CENTER);
gtk_window_set_title(GTK_WINDOW(window), "Tour App");
gtk_container_set_border_width(GTK_CONTAINER(window), 10);
table = gtk_table_new(7, 1, FALSE);
gtk_container_add(GTK_CONTAINER(window), table);
label1 = gtk_label_new("Our Tour Package Offers");
align = gtk_alignment_new(0.0, 0.5, 0.0, 0.0);
gtk_container_add(GTK_CONTAINER(align), label1);
gtk_table_attach(GTK_TABLE(table), align, 0, 1, 1, 2, GTK_FILL, GTK_FILL, 0, 10);
label2 = gtk_label_new("Select City: ");
align = gtk_alignment_new(0.0, 0.5, 0.0, 0.0);
gtk_container_add(GTK_CONTAINER(align), label2);
gtk_table_attach(GTK_TABLE(table), align,0, 1, 2, 3, GTK_FILL, GTK_FILL, 0, 0);
gtk_widget_show(align);
grp_widgets.combo = gtk_combo_box_new_text();
gtk_combo_box_append_text(GTK_COMBO_BOX(grp_widgets.combo), "Paris");
gtk_combo_box_append_text(GTK_COMBO_BOX(grp_widgets.combo), "London");
gtk_combo_box_append_text(GTK_COMBO_BOX(grp_widgets.combo), "Tokyo");
gtk_combo_box_append_text(GTK_COMBO_BOX(grp_widgets.combo), "New York");
/* Creates a new button1. */
grp_widgets.button1 = gtk_button_new_with_label ("See Itinerary");
grp_widgets.label = gtk_label_new("");
align = gtk_alignment_new(0.0, 0.5, 0.0, 0.0);
gtk_container_add(GTK_CONTAINER(align), grp_widgets.label);
gtk_table_attach(GTK_TABLE(table), align,0, 1, 5, 6, GTK_FILL, GTK_FILL, 0, 0);
gtk_widget_show(align);
image = gtk_image_new ();
gtk_image_set_from_file (GTK_IMAGE(image), "Images/olympics_logo.gif");
//column 1
gtk_table_attach(GTK_TABLE(table), image, 0, 1, 0, 1,
GTK_FILL | GTK_SHRINK, GTK_FILL | GTK_SHRINK, 0, 0);
gtk_table_attach(GTK_TABLE(table), grp_widgets.combo, 0, 1, 3, 4,
GTK_FILL | GTK_SHRINK, GTK_FILL | GTK_SHRINK, 0, 15);
gtk_table_attach(GTK_TABLE(table), grp_widgets.button1, 0, 1, 4, 5,
GTK_FILL | GTK_SHRINK, GTK_FILL | GTK_SHRINK, 5, 15);
g_signal_connect(window, "destroy",G_CALLBACK(gtk_main_quit), NULL);
g_signal_connect (window,"delete-event",G_CALLBACK (close_application), NULL);
g_signal_connect_swapped(G_OBJECT(window), "destroy", G_CALLBACK(gtk_main_quit), G_OBJECT(window));
g_signal_connect (G_OBJECT(grp_widgets.button1), "clicked", G_CALLBACK (UpdateChoice), (gpointer)&grp_widgets);
gtk_widget_show(table);
gtk_widget_show_all(window);
gtk_main();
return 0;
}
Here is the rc file with properties for TABLE AND WINDOW:
style "window"
{
font_name = "fixed 12"
bg[NORMAL] = { 0.0, 0.0, 0.0 }
}
style "table"
{
bg[NORMAL] = { 1.0, 1.0, 1.0 }
fg[NORMAL] = { 1.0, 1.0, 1.0 }
}
style "container" {
font_name = "bold 12"
xthickness = 10
ythickness = 10
bg[NORMAL] = { 1.0, 1.0, 1.0 }
fg[NORMAL] = { 1.0, 1.0,1.0 }
}
style "button" {
font_name = "bold 12"
xthickness = 10
ythickness = 10
#bg[NORMAL] = { 0.0, 0.0, 0.0 }
fg[NORMAL] = { 0.0, 0.0, 0.0 }
}
#widget_class "*GtkButton*" style "button"
widget_class "GtkWindow" style "window"
widget_class "*GtkTable*" style "table"
The problem in the above code is, the Button's text(label) remains white when I change the fg to white on either table or window styles. Even after changing the fg to black(as below), the label text on my button remains white. Also how can I stretch the image and all the widgets on the window so that whenever I resize my window all widgets are resized to fit screen as well?

Answer 1

All labels should be white so they can be seen against the black window background.
According to what I've found online:
GtkLabel Widget is one of a few GTK+ widgets that don't create their
own window to render themselves into. This menas in order to set the
bg color for a GtkLabel Widget,you need to change the bg color of its
parent.
So in that case, for a simple example, I packed only one of the labels in a GtkEventBox.
Code Piece:
GtkWidget *eventBox;
...
eventBox = gtk_event_box_new();
label1 = gtk_label_new("Our Tour Package Offers");
gtk_container_add(GTK_CONTAINER(eventBox), label1);
align = gtk_alignment_new(0.0, 0.5, 0.0, 0.0);
gtk_container_add(GTK_CONTAINER(align), eventBox);
...
simplified rc file:
style "window"
{
font_name = "fixed 12"
bg[NORMAL] = { 0.0, 0.0, 0.0 }
}
style "label"{
bg[NORMAL] = { 1.0, 1.0, 1.0 }
}
widget_class "GtkWindow" style "window"
widget_class "*GtkAlignment*GtkEventBox*" style "label"
and result: