[wxGTK 2.8.7] wxStatusBar text colour

[Robert Roebling]

[initially posted to wrong list]

Carsten A. Arnholm wrote:

> [wxGTK 2.8.7]
> 
> I am using a wxStatusBar under Kubuntu 7.04. If I change the KDE
colour 
> scheme so that "Standard Text" is changed to something else than
black 
> (yellow for example), then this is respected very well in my
wxWidgets 
> application, except for the wxStatusBar where the statusbar text
fields 
> still show black text.
> 
> This is an issue because the colour scheme is very dark and red (it
shall be 
> used for astronomy and normal colour schemes are blinding in the
dark). But 
> black on dark red is quite difficult to read, yellow on red works
much 
> better.

In what colour do native GTK+ apps draw their colour? That of a
GtkLabel? Put differently, does a wxStaticText use the colour
that wxStatusBar should use?

  Robert