[pygtk] How to set background on a textview

[Stephen George]

Hi,

I'm confused  about setting the background color on a textview.
I've googled, but the answers seem to not work, or I didn't understand 
them properly.

I have a scrolled window with a text view inside, and using pango markup.

I have tried

        view1 = gtk.TextView();
        view1.modify_bg(gtk.STATE_NORMAL, gtk.gdk.color_parse("papaya 
whip") ) #have tried plain names such as red, green blue

        sw = gtk.ScrolledWindow()
        sw.set_shadow_type(gtk.SHADOW_ETCHED_IN)
        sw.set_policy(gtk.POLICY_NEVER, gtk.POLICY_AUTOMATIC)
        sw.add(view1)     
 
No change to the background.

I notice that scrolledWindow does not receive x events, and seen 
comments that you need an eventbox so can change background, ... but 
does that also apply to textview when it's embedded in the 
ScrolledWindow?, do I need to but the scrolled window into a eventbox so 
the textview can get the event?

I looked at pango, and from what I can understand I can successfully set 
the paragraphs background color, ... but not the whole TextView?, also 
the margins are still white, and that looks kind of ugly.

        table = textbuf.get_tag_table()
        tag = gtk.TextTag('marketspeak')
        tag.set_property( 'weight', pango.WEIGHT_BOLD)
        tag.set_property( 'foreground', "black")
        tag.set_property( 'paragraph-background', "papaya whip") #"yellow")
        tag.set_property( 'left_margin', 10)
        tag.set_property( 'right_margin', 10)
        table.add(tag)


Can someone steer me in the right direction.
If it matters I am on Windows 2K.

Thanks
Steve