[pygtk] font color in a label

[John Dennis]

On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 19:07 -0400, Christopher Cole wrote:
> i'm currently setting the color of a label in my code with the following:
> 
> state_label.set_label('<span foreground=\"green\">Active</span>')
> 
> is there a good way to specify a hex value (e.g. #009900) as an
> alternative to the green this defaults to? would this be something
> well suited for an rc file? any other best practice solutions?

<span foreground="#00FF00"> will do the trick so perhaps I missed the
real intent of your question.

You can also use styles to control the labels appearance which can be
read from a resource file, although note because labels are windowless
widgets you can't set the background, see the following for an
explanation:

http://www.async.com.br/faq/pygtk/index.py?req=show&file=faq07.005.htp

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