GtkDrawingArea background color

[Fabian Emmes <fab orlen de>]

hi all,

i tried to to set the background color of a GtkDrawingArea
to red, but instead got a beautiful green...

. . .
GtkWidget* drawing_area;
GdkColor red;
. . .
if( !gdk_color_parse( "red", &red ) ) g_print( "error parsing color!\n"
);
gdk_window_set_background( drawing_area->window, &red );
. . .

what am i doing wrong?

thanx
Fabian Emmes

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