Hi; On 4 May 2015 at 01:01, The Devils Jester <thedevilsjester@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am trying to get general GTK system colors for use in custom rendering > operations. In MSW, I would get these colors through a function like > GetSysColor, but GTK does not appear to have such a function. That is not wholly correct, but to a first approximation, yes: there is no such thing as "system color". GTK+ uses CSS, which does support more than just colors for rendering operations: you can also have gradients with multiple stops, or images. > The only way that comes to mind, to get a bunch of common system colors, is > to create a bunch of widgets (one of each type that has a color I need), > parent said widget, and make sure its realized, using > gtk_style_context_get_color. This seems like an awful lot of overhead (and > a bit overkill) just to get some colors. Am I missing some more direct > method? The actual question would be: what are you drawing? If you're drawing bits and pieces of the UI in your custom rendering, then you should be using the gtk_render_* class of functions. For instance, if you want to render the same background, using the same style, of a widget you should use gtk_render_background(); if you want to render text using the same style as entries or labels, you should use gtk_render_layout(); if you want to render images, you should use gtk_render_icon(). This is what widgets do internally. If you're rending custom things then you can either combine all of the above, or you can use custom rendering code. If you opt for the latter, then you should not be using the theme anyway, because you're clearly creating something that does not fit into the style of the overall platform. You can still use the CSS machinery, though, through CSS style classes, and the GtkStyleContext API. Ciao, Emmanuele. -- https://www.bassi.io [@] ebassi [@gmail.com] _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
