hi; On 11 February 2015 at 13:08, Murray Cumming <murrayc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The gtk_widget_override_*() functions were recently deprecated: > https://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/commit/?id=63efdca2 > (These had themselves replaced gtk_widget_modify_*(): > https://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/commit/?id=f383e6b0 ) > > I'd like to improve the deprecation documentation to give more exact > clues about what people should do. there are two ways to replace gtk_widget_modify_background_color() — though, obviously, the actual reply would be "don't": • you can either provide a fragment of CSS to style the widget yourself • you can override the GtkWidget::draw signal, and paint the color yourself using Cairo > But I don't know what CSS would replace > gtk_widget_override_background_color() for a GtkTextView. If I use > "background-color: #whatever" then only the background of the content's > text is colored, not the background of the whole area. what does "the whole area" mean, in this context? the text view may have some margin, which does not get painted with the background color, as per CSS spec. if you want to paint the area beneath the margin, you'll have to draw on the parent widget, not on the GtkTextView. ciao, Emmanuele. -- https://www.bassi.io [@] ebassi [@gmail.com] _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
