widgetpygtkdrawingarea

How to set the background color of a pygtk window

I am trying to set the background color for a pyGtk window which has a single DrawingArea widget. With this code I always get a random color everytime I launch the script:

widget = gtk.DrawingArea()
widget.show()
window = gtk.Window()
window.add(widget)
col = gtk.gdk.Color('#010')
window.present()
widget.window.set_background(col)
window.connect('delete-event', gtk.main_quit)
gtk.main()

I also tried using widget.modify_bg(gtk.STATE_NORMAL, col) instead of the set_background line, and I always get a black background.

What am I missing?

Solution

  • Ok, it seems like I was struggling too much with other things, and I didn't realize that I set the test color to #010, which is, obviously, almost black. Using modify_bg works, just remember to set a reasonable color ;)

    This is the working code:

    widget = gtk.DrawingArea()
widget.show()
window = gtk.Window()
window.add(widget)
col = gtk.gdk.Color('#0f0')
window.present()
widget.modify_bg(gtk.STATE_NORMAL, col)
window.connect('delete-event', gtk.main_quit)
gtk.main()

    By the way, does anybody know why widget.window.set_background() sets a random color?