How to change a widget's color ?

[Ivo Clarysse <soggie riv be>]

How do I change the color of a GTK widget ?

I have a widget who's background color I wish to change.

I tried this using:

 mycutestyle=gtk_style_new();
 *mycutestyle=*(gtk_widget_get_default_style());

 gdk_color_parse("blue",&mycutecolor);
 gdk_color_alloc(gtk_widget_get_colormap(parentwidget),&mycutecolor);
 mycutestyle->bg[GTK_STATE_NORMAL]=mycutecolor;

 gtk_widget_set_style(button,mycutestyle);


This doesn't change anything though.  Should I perhaps create a new
colormap for the widget whose color I want to change ?
Should I use gtk_style_attach ?  Before or after gtk_widget_set_style ?

Is there perhaps some kind of tutorial on Gtk styles somewhere ?

Soggie.

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