From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2005-07-21T18:55:56+09:00
Subject: Re: setting background color on gnomecanvas widget

Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> How does one set the background color on a gnomecanvas widget?  
> 
> http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/libgnomecanvas/GnomeCanvas.html
> makes reference to a bg_color field, but I don't see that referenced
> in the source for ruby-gnome2.  (and there's no documentation for
> gnomecanvas yet apparently)

I recently asked about modifying Gtk widget backgrounds (on the
ruby-gnome mailing list) and was pointed towards Widget#modify_bg(state,
color) and Widget#modify_base(state, color) for certain widgets
(Gtk::Entry, Gtk::TreeView). Not sure if GnomeCanvas supports those but
it's worth a try.

martin