RE: FW: Getting default style

["Ian Wilkinson" <ian wilkinson silvaco com>]

Thanks.  I found the GTK 2.0 docs after my post.  Things seem to be working
and I'm off to a good start now.  I'll post again if I have further
questions.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Owen Taylor [mailto:otaylor redhat com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 4:15 PM
> To: Ian Wilkinson
> Cc: GNOME User group
> Subject: Re: FW: Getting default style
>
>
> On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 13:40 -0700, Ian Wilkinson wrote:
> > [Apologies if this message is repeated.  I'm having problems
> with my mail
> > client]
> >
> >
> > Hi, I am working on a Gtk -> Qt style conversion library.  I'm
> new to GTK,
> > so go easy on me.
> >
> > how can I get a GtkStyle object, representing the current GtkStyle being
> > used?
> >
> > If I use gtk_style_new() it seems to give me an uninitialised structure
> > (sounds reasonable).
> >
> > I want to get a structure containing information for the
> current Gtk style.
> > Do I have to create a GtkWidget in order to do this or not?
>
> Not going to try to answer these... GTK+ doesn't really work like that.
>
> > Styles/themes are currently undocumented in the GTK reference manual -
> > http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/gtk/gtk-styles.html.  Does
> anyone know of
> > an 'unofficial' reference?
>
> Can I suggest you look at the docs for the current version of GTK+
> instead, e.g.:
>
> http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkStyle.html
>
> (the RC files documentation might be the best starting place)
>
> http://www.gtk.org/~otaylor/gtk/2.0/theme-engines.html is a decent
> intro, though outdated in some of the details. (gtk.org seems to
> be down, you should be able to get it out of the google cache.)
>
> Also worth looking at the Mozilla or OpenOffice theme drawing code if
> you want to find out the scary details of how to use GTK+ theme engines
> from non GTK+ code.
>
> Regards,
>                                               Owen