[pygtk] changing the foreground colour of entry box dynamically

[Tim Evans]

ganesh gajare wrote:
> Hello,
>  I have created an entry box widget using glade.
>  and I am doing validation on that field...
>  So whenever an invalid text is entered in the entry box,the text color 
> of entry should change dynamically..

I haven't tested this, but the method 'modify_text' should do what you 
need.  For example, to set the text to red, use:

     entry.modify_text(gtk.gdk.color_parse('red'))

and to set it back to the default black:

     entry.modify_text(None)

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Tim Evans
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