Rather than showing the window, call realize(). That does everything that show() does EXCEPT make the window visible. Then you should be able to get the background color. X doesn't send the communication to the server until there is idle time OR you force it (by calling realize()).
On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 00:11 +0300, Vlad Volodin wrote: > Sorry, Brian, > but as I said before, I also can't get the correct GtkWindow > background color before it is shown. why? > (thank you for your reply) > > 2009/3/16 Brian J. Tarricone <bj...@cornell.edu>: > > Vlad Volodin wrote: > > > >> The canvas is white, and it doesn't have some kind of transparency. > >> So, as I thought, I decided to fill it's background with color, got > >> from it's GtkStyle. After some experiments I realized, that widgets > >> (main window, container and GtkClutterEmbed) don't have needed color: > > > > You really just can't use this method at all. Some widgets won't have a > > color as a background; they'll have a pixmap. You won't be able to paint it > > using this method. > > > > -brian > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gtk-app-devel-list mailing list > > gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list > > > _______________________________________________ > gtk-app-devel-list mailing list > gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
