GTK+ 2.8.17 and background colours

[Francesco Montorsi <f18m_cpp217828 yahoo it>]

Hi,
   I'm struggling with my GTK+ (2.8.17 - coming with ubuntu dapper) to 
be able to set the background colour of a button.

I've googled and searched the archives of this mailing list and I have 
found exactly same questions with attached test programs.

I'm attaching two short, simple test programs which *should* be able to 
set the background colour of a button to a different colour from the 
standard one.

Unfortunately running them I don't see any difference with a standard 
GtkButton: i.e. the calls to gtk_widget_modify_bg and 
gtk_widget_modify_fg seems not to have any effect !

Could anyone more expert try to compile those files and run them to see 
if they get standard colours or not ?
(to compile them I usually place them in the gtk\examples\helloworld 
folder and rename them to helloworld.c ;))

This seems like a GTK+ bug to me...

Thanks a lot,
Francesco

#include <gtk/gtk.h>

int main( int   argc,  char *argv[] )
{
    GtkWidget *window;
    GtkWidget *button;

    gtk_init (&argc, &argv);

    window = gtk_window_new (GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL);

    button = gtk_button_new_with_label ("Hello World");
    gtk_container_add (GTK_CONTAINER (window), button);

    GdkColor color;

    color.red = 65535;
    color.blue = 0;
    color.green = 65535;
    gtk_widget_modify_bg ( button, GTK_STATE_NORMAL, &color );

    GtkWidget *child_label;
    child_label = gtk_bin_get_child (GTK_BIN (button) );

    color.red = 0;
    color.blue = 65535;
    color.green = 0;
    gtk_widget_modify_fg ( child_label, GTK_STATE_NORMAL, &color );

    /* reuse text foreground color for window background */
    gtk_widget_modify_bg ( window, GTK_STATE_NORMAL, &color );

    gtk_widget_show (button);
    gtk_widget_show (window);

    gtk_main ();

    return 0;
}

#include <stdlib.h> /* Needed for "exit" */
#include <gtk/gtk.h>

/* This is a callback function. The data arguments are ignored
 * in this example. More on callbacks below. */
void hello( GtkWidget *widget,
            gpointer   data )
{
    g_print ("Hello World\n");
}

gint delete_event( GtkWidget *widget,
                   GdkEvent  *event,
           gpointer   data )
{
    /* If you return FALSE in the "delete_event" signal handler,
     * GTK will emit the "destroy" signal. Returning TRUE means
     * you don't want the window to be destroyed.
     * This is useful for popping up 'are you sure you want to quit?'
     * type dialogs. */

    g_print ("delete event occurred\n");

    /* Change TRUE to FALSE and the main window will be destroyed with
     * a "delete_event". */

    return TRUE;
}

/* Another callback */
void destroy( GtkWidget *widget,
              gpointer   data )
{
    gtk_main_quit ();
}

int main( int   argc,
          char *argv[] )
{
    /* GtkWidget is the storage type for widgets */
    GtkWidget *window;
    GtkWidget *button;

    /* This is called in all GTK applications. Arguments are parsed
     * from the command line and are returned to the application. */
    gtk_init (&argc, &argv);

    /* create a new window */
    window = gtk_window_new (GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL);

    /* When the window is given the "delete_event" signal (this is given
     * by the window manager, usually by the "close" option, or on the
     * titlebar), we ask it to call the delete_event () function
     * as defined above. The data passed to the callback
     * function is NULL and is ignored in the callback function. */
    g_signal_connect (G_OBJECT (window), "delete_event",
              G_CALLBACK (delete_event), NULL);

    /* Here we connect the "destroy" event to a signal handler.
     * This event occurs when we call gtk_widget_destroy() on the window,
     * or if we return FALSE in the "delete_event" callback. */
    g_signal_connect (G_OBJECT (window), "destroy",
              G_CALLBACK (destroy), NULL);

    /* Sets the border width of the window. */
    gtk_container_set_border_width (GTK_CONTAINER (window), 10);

    /* Creates a new button with the label "Hello World". */
    button = gtk_button_new_with_label ("Hello World");

    /* When the button receives the "clicked" signal, it will call the
     * function hello() passing it NULL as its argument.  The hello()
     * function is defined above. */
    g_signal_connect (G_OBJECT (button), "clicked",
              G_CALLBACK (hello), NULL);

    /* This will cause the window to be destroyed by calling
     * gtk_widget_destroy(window) when "clicked".  Again, the destroy
     * signal could come from here, or the window manager. */
    g_signal_connect_swapped (G_OBJECT (button), "clicked",
                  G_CALLBACK (gtk_widget_destroy),
                              G_OBJECT (window));

    /* This packs the button into the window (a gtk container). */
    gtk_container_add (GTK_CONTAINER (window), button);

/* New code to change the color of a button*/
    GdkColor color;

    /* Define the color for the button's background */
    color.red = 65535;
    color.blue = 0;
    color.green = 65535;
    /* Change the color of the button's background */
    gtk_widget_modify_bg ( button, GTK_STATE_NORMAL, &color );

    /* Get the pointer to the child widget */
    GtkWidget *child_label;
    child_label = gtk_bin_get_child (GTK_BIN (button) );
    if (! child_label)
    {
      g_print ( "Label widget not defined\n" );
      exit (1);
    }

    /* Define the color for the label's text */
    color.red = 0;
    color.blue = 65535;
    color.green = 0;
    gtk_widget_modify_fg ( child_label, GTK_STATE_NORMAL, &color );
/* End of new code */

    /* The final step is to display this newly created widget. */
    gtk_widget_show (button);

    /* and the window */
    gtk_widget_show (window);

    /* All GTK applications must have a gtk_main(). Control ends here
     * and waits for an event to occur (like a key press or
     * mouse event). */
    gtk_main ();

    return 0;
}