Thanks very much to all who replied. Yes I am using the default bluecurve theme and this must be the reason I'm having a problem. The application is controlling some hardware and I'm using the bars to display various changing parameters. Using different colors enables the operator to be able to differentiate between them easily. Thanks again, Nick. On 18 Aug 2003, Soeren Sandmann wrote: > Nick Soffe <nick.soffe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > I'm still having a problem changing the color of a progress bar in one of > > my programs using gtk 2.0. I've extracted the offending code into a > > trivial test program and I still can't make it work. > > The program works for me. > > > Søren > > _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list