[wxGTK 2.8.7] wxStatusBar text colour

[Carsten A. Arnholm]

Vadim Zeitlin wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 16:38:40 +0100 "Carsten A. Arnholm" <arnholm at offline.no> wrote:
> 
> CAA> I am using a wxStatusBar under Kubuntu 7.04. If I change the KDE colour 
> CAA> scheme so that "Standard Text" is changed to something else than black 
> CAA> (yellow for example), then this is respected very well in my wxWidgets 
> CAA> application, except for the wxStatusBar where the statusbar text fields 
> CAA> still show black text.
> ...
> CAA> Is this a bug in wxStatusBar ?
> 
>  Yes and no. Yes because it should, of course, use the system options but
> no because it isn't a native class at all and so it's more a case of
> missing functionality rather than a bug. We discussed making it possible to
> inherit the appearance parameters of arbitrary GTK widgets on wx-dev some
> time ago but unfortunately I don't think anyone is really working on this
> right now.

Ok, thanks for the explanation. At least I know it isn't something odd I 
am doing :-)

Allowing some form of controlled inheritance of appearance parameters 
sounds like a good idea, although perhaps complex. I can see there is 
for example wxWindow::InheritAttributes(), but I guess it does little 
for wxStatusBar. Without such things maybe using the system options is 
straightforward and useful.

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