On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 04:21, Art Hunkins<abhun...@uncg.edu> wrote: > Gary - > > Thanks so much for these helpful suggestions.
At this point, I think it would be more efficient if you went through the PyGTK tutorial. No need to do all of it, though. http://www.pygtk.org/pygtk2tutorial/index.html What is easy to do in some widget systems isn't as easy in others, unfortunately. Regards, Tomeu > With them I've been able to change the color of the basic Sugar display, and > to create boxes of differing colors. > > Several major issues remain (which may not be surmountable?): > 1) when text displayed on the basic screen (in no box) - that area reverts > to gray; > 2) importantly, nothing else displays in my colored boxes; this includes > frames, other boxes, text and buttons. > > Can you guide me toward solutions here? > > I'm basically modifying Lazzarini's csndsugui.py. Here is the revised box > code: > > def box(self, vert=True, colour=(0xFFFF, 0xFFFF, 0xFFFF), parent=None, > padding=5): > """creates a box > vert: True, creates a vertical box; horiz. > otherwise > parent: parent box, None if this is a toplevel box > padding: box padding > returns the widget instance""" > if vert: > box = gtk.VBox() > else: > box = gtk.HBox() > self.event_box = gtk.EventBox() > self.event_box.modify_bg(gtk.STATE_NORMAL, gtk.gdk.Color(colour[0], > colour[1], colour[2], 0)) > if parent: > parent.pack_start(self.event_box) > else: > self.outbox.pack_start(self.event_box) > self.window.set_canvas(self.outbox) > self.boxes.append(box) > self.event_box.show() > box.show() > return box > > I suspect that chaages in the last few lines are required (especially in the > "boxes" line and probably the packing). > > And here is the current "text" code. I rather imagine if this could be > gotten to display in a box with the box retaining its color, I might be on > the way to success (but this may be the hard part; can other things be > displayed "over" an event_box?). This code is straight from Lazzarini: > > def text(self, name, box=None,colour=(0,0,0)): > """Creates a static text label > name: text label > box: parent box, None if text is to be placed toplevel > colour: RGB values in a tuple (R,G,B) > returns the widget instance""" > label = gtk.Label(name) > label.modify_fg(gtk.STATE_NORMAL, > gtk.gdk.Color(colour[0],colour[1],colour[2], 0)) > if box: > box.pack_start(label, False, False, 5) > else: > self.outbox.pack_start(label, False, False, 5) > label.show() > return label > > I very much appreciate your help. I, too, wonder if all this hassling over > color is worth it. If only there were some simple way to make the overall > display white instead of gray! I'm wanting the color change strictly for > readability; I need more color contrast to read the text (which is > unfortunately profuse in my project). > > Art Hunkins > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary C Martin" <g...@garycmartin.com> > To: "Art Hunkins" <abhun...@uncg.edu> > Cc: "Tomeu Vizoso" <to...@sugarlabs.org>; <sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org> > Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 10:07 AM > Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Background Screen Color for SoaS Activity > > >> Hi Art, >> >> On 7 Jul 2009, at 03:46, Art Hunkins wrote: >> >>> Tomeu, >>> >>> I've had no luck modifying background color for anything except buttons. >>> >>> No boxes, even when the box is completely empty. >>> >>> Does anyone know how to change the color of the entire screen, or of a >>> box? >> >> I can remember hitting my head on this when first playing with gtk. I >> wanted a black area to place a moon image in. The trick seems to be using a >> gtk.EventBox(). Have a look in moon.py at about line #114: >> >> http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/moon/repos/mainline/trees/master >> >> Just quickly scraped out the lines I think might be interesting, does seem >> quite a bit for just a black screen :-) >> >> # Create the main activity container >> self.main_view = gtk.HBox() >> >> # Blackness >> self.event_box = gtk.EventBox() >> colormap = gtk.gdk.colormap_get_system() >> self.black_alloc_color = colormap.alloc_color('black') >> self.event_box.modify_bg(gtk.STATE_NORMAL, self.black_alloc_color) >> self.main_view.pack_end(self.event_box) >> >> # Display everything >> self.event_box.show() >> self.main_view.show() >> self.set_canvas(self.main_view) >> self.show_all() >> >> Regards, >> --Gary > > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
