Hi, I'm new to this list, so I hope this is vaguely the right place... I have an application that uses a custom widget derived (fairly closely) from the "GtkDial" example in the tutorial. It's close enough that I'm fairly confident the problem I have applies to the original too. This widget draws a dial, consisting of a background canvas, a needle, and a set of tick marks. When working right, the tick marks are in the fg[NORMAL] colour, the needle is (slightly oddly) bg[NORMAL] and the canvas is bg[ACTIVE]. I'd guess this combination was chosen to look nice on the defaults ;) Anyway, on GTK-2.8.x this application works fine, including when I set up my ~/.gtkrc-2.0 for lovely colours. On GTK-2.10.x it doesn't. The dial background is painted in needle colour. So I checked out the dial_test application, which uses the widget in the same way, and that works on GTK-2.10.x correctly. Hmm... thought I... that's weird. So I did some digging around, looking at the places where the two applications differ, starting around where the dial is used and moving out. Eventually I came down to the following: My "proper" application has a toolbar, containing several stock icons. If I set that toolbar to text only, the dial is coloured correctly. If I enable the icons, the dial's background is messed up. As far as I can tell, the background colour is set by the gtk_style_set_background call at the end of gtk_dial_realise What seems to be happening, on GTK-2.10.x only, is that the effects of this line are broken when a [stock] icon is displayed [in the tool bar]. This feels like a bug to me, and not just a bug in the GtkDial example but something wrong in GTK-2.10 itself. That said, I have worked out some modifications to GtkDial that get around it (by colouring the canvas in bg[NORMAL] and the needle in bg[ACTIVE] instead). But I do feel there's likely to be other places this behaviour may bite somebody. -- Rob Pearce http://www.bdt-home.demon.co.uk The contents of this | Windows NT crashed. message are purely | I am the Blue Screen of Death. my opinion. Don't | No one hears your screams. believe a word. | _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
