[wx-dev] wxGTK 2.8.x bg color of single line text ctrls

[Robin Dunn]

Robin Dunn wrote:
> There have been some more reports lately of not being able to change the 
> bg color of some widgets on wxGTK and we've just given our standard 
> answer of "some themes don't support it."  But while trying to verify 
> that deactivating the theme and using the default I found that you still 
> can't set the bg color of single line text ctrls (multi-line work ok.) 
> Does anybody know why?
> 

Oops, I got that backwards.  (That's what happens when writing the mail 
24 hours after running the test.)  It's the setting of the foreground 
color that doesn't work even when there is no active theme.  Setting the 
background color does work.


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