<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >How do I set the color and font of a GtkLabel using a Resource File?</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="GTK+ FAQ" HREF="book1.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Development with GTK+: widget specific questions" HREF="c698.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="How do I set the background color of a GtkLabel widget?" HREF="x801.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="How do I configure Tooltips in a Resource File?" HREF="x819.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >GTK+ FAQ</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x801.html" ACCESSKEY="P" ><<< Previous</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Development with GTK+: widget specific questions</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x819.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next >>></A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="AEN805" >How do I set the color and font of a GtkLabel using a Resource File?</A ></H1 ><P >The widget name path constructed for a Label consists of the widget names of its object hierarchy as well, e.g.</P ><P ><P CLASS="LITERALLAYOUT" ><TT CLASS="LITERAL" >window (name: humphrey)</TT ><br> <TT CLASS="LITERAL" > hbox</TT ><br> <TT CLASS="LITERAL" > label (name: mylabel)</TT ></P ></P ><P >The widget path your pattern needs to match would be: <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >humphrey.GtkHBox.mylabel</TT ></P ><P >The resource file may look something like:</P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" >style "title" { fg[NORMAL] = {1.0, 0.0, 0.0} font = "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-140-*-*-*-*-*-*" } widget "*mylabel" style "title"</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P >In your program, you would also need to give a name to the Label widget, which can be done using:</P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" > label = gtk_label_new("Some Label Text"); gtk_widget_set_name(label, "mylabel"); gtk_widget_show(label);</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x801.html" ACCESSKEY="P" ><<< Previous</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="book1.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x819.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next >>></A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >How do I set the background color of a GtkLabel widget?</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="c698.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >How do I configure Tooltips in a Resource File?</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >