Re: Setting color of a cell

[Jody Goldberg <jgoldberg home com>]

On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 11:02:56PM -0400, Ser Nam Lim wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was trying to add on certain features to gnumeric by adding a component
> to GNumeric source code itself. I was trying to use the following way to
> set the color of a range of cells but it did not seem to set the color
> at all although these statements are executed. If anyone knows what more
> needs to be done let me know. Thanks.
>
>         MStyle *style = mstyle_new ();
>         StyleColor *color = style_color_new (1, 0, 0);
>         mstyle_set_color (style, MSTYLE_COLOR_BACK, color);
>         sheet_range_apply_style (sheet, Range *, style);

I can not easily comment on this because it is for an older version.
However, if you pass a valid range to sheet_range_apply_style (or
its modern counterpart sheet_apply_style) things should work.
A possible problem would be that you have not redrawn the canvas.
The new version handles this, I don't recall the behavior of the old
version. you can test by iconifying or scrolling the region.

You are aware that style_color_new (1,0,0) is basicly black ?

Either way I would reccomend you get more current source.

Good Luck
    Jody