[wxPython-users] SetForegroundColour() under Gtk

[Robin Dunn]

Ed Leafe wrote:
>     I have an app where a text control needs to be displayed in red if 
> certain conditions apply. The code that does this looks like:
> 
> theTextCtrl.SetForegroundColour((255, 0, 0))
> 
>     This works great under OS X and Windows, but has no effect on Gtk: 
> the text remains black. It has been tested on Kubuntu 7.04 and OpenSUSE 
> 10.2, with both wxPython 2.6.x and 2.8.4.
> 
>     Any ideas as to what the problem could be?

This is probably a problem with the GTK theme.

Hmm...  It also happens when there is no theme active, which I didn't 
expect.  Please enter a bug report about this one.


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