I already looked at that Gtk link (in fact I mentioned it in my question), but it doesn't really help me. I tried to adapt the example to work with a label, but $label->window returns undef so it dies.

      my $l = new Gtk::Label( "Success" );
      my $colormap = $l->window->get_colormap();
      my $gdk_color = Gtk::Gdk::Color->parse_color( "green" );
      $gdk_color = $colormap->color_alloc( $gdk_color );
      $l->window->set_background( $gdk_color );

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Looking at it a bit closer, it seems to expect that the widget is already added to a realized window. That's unfortunate, since I'd like for my module to return a Gtk::Table that can then be added to a window at will.

As for the theme remark: I would compare what I'm working on to a web browser in that regard. There's some general UI that should be affected by themes (cfr. the browser chrome), and then some content that should be shown a certain way no matter what the theme (cfr. a webpage in the browser)

In reply to Re^2: Perl::Gtk and Color tutorial by Crackers2
in thread Perl::Gtk and Color tutorial by Crackers2

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