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Sample Code 38: How to set the background color of GtkTreeView?
Written by kksou   
Thursday, 28 September 2006
Problem

You would like to display set the background color of a GtkTreeView as shown below:

How to set the background color of GtkTreeView?


Solution

Sample Code
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<?php
$window = new GtkWindow();
$window->set_size_request(400, 320);
$window->connect_simple('destroy', array('Gtk','main_quit'));
$window->add($vbox = new GtkVBox());

// display title
$title = new GtkLabel("Set the background color of GtkTreeView");
$title->modify_font(new PangoFontDescription("Times New Roman Italic 10"));
$title->modify_fg(Gtk::STATE_NORMAL, GdkColor::parse("#0000ff"));
$title->set_size_request(-1, 40);
$vbox->pack_start($title, 0, 0);
$vbox->pack_start(new GtkLabel(), 0, 0);

// the 2D table
$data = array(
array('row0', 'item 42', 2, 3.1),
array('row1', 'item 36', 20, 6.21),
array('row2', 'item 21', 8, 9.36),
array('row3', 'item 10', 11, 12.4),
array('row4', 'item 7', 5, 15.5),
array('row5', 'item 4', 17, 18.6),
array('row6', 'item 3', 20, 21.73));

display_table ($vbox, $data);

function display_table($vbox, $data) {

    // Set up a scroll window
    $scrolled_win = new GtkScrolledWindow();
    $scrolled_win->set_policy( Gtk::POLICY_AUTOMATIC,
        Gtk::POLICY_AUTOMATIC);
    $vbox->pack_start($scrolled_win);

    // Creates the list store
    if (defined("GObject::TYPE_STRING")) {
        $model = new GtkListStore(GObject::TYPE_STRING, GObject::TYPE_STRING,
                    GObject::TYPE_LONG, GObject::TYPE_DOUBLE);
    } else {
        $model = new GtkListStore(Gtk::TYPE_STRING, Gtk::TYPE_STRING,
                    Gtk::TYPE_LONG, Gtk::TYPE_DOUBLE);
    }
    $field_header = array('Row #', 'Description', 'Qty', 'Price');
    $field_justification = array(0.0, 0.0, 0.5, 1.0);

    // Creates the view to display the list store
    $view = new GtkTreeView($model);
    $scrolled_win->add($view);
    $view->modify_base(Gtk::STATE_NORMAL, 
        GdkColor::parse("#FFFF00")); // note 1

    // Creates the columns
    for ($col=0; $col<count($field_header); ++$col) {
        $cell_renderer = new GtkCellRendererText();
        $cell_renderer->set_property("xalign", $field_justification[$col]);
        $column = new GtkTreeViewColumn($field_header[$col],
            $cell_renderer, 'text', $col);
        $column->set_alignment($field_justification[$col]);
        $column->set_sort_column_id($col);

        // set the header font and color
        $label = new GtkLabel($field_header[$col]);
        $label->modify_font(new PangoFontDescription("Arial Bold"));
        $label->modify_fg(Gtk::STATE_NORMAL, GdkColor::parse("#0000FF"));
        $column->set_widget($label);
        $label->show();

        // setup self-defined function to display alternate row color
        $column->set_cell_data_func($cell_renderer, "format_col");
        $view->append_column($column);
    }

    // pupulates the data
    for ($row=0; $row<count($data); ++$row) {
        $values = array();
        for ($col=0; $col<count($data[$row]); ++$col) {
            $values[] = $data[$row][$col];
        }
        $model->append($values);
    }
}

// self-defined function to display alternate row color
function format_col($column, $cell, $model, $iter) {
    $path = $model->get_path($iter);
    $row_num = $path[0];
    $row_color = ($row_num%2==1) ? '#dddddd' : '#ffff00'; // note 2
    $cell->set_property('cell-background', $row_color);
}

$window->show_all();
Gtk::main();
?>
Explanation
  1. Set the background color of the GtkTreeView to yellow.
  2. Test for odd and even rows and set the background color of each row accordingly. Set one of the row color to be the same as the background color of GtkTreeView.

Related Articles

  1. How to display a 2D array in GtkTreeView - Part 1?
  2. How to display a 2D array in GtkTreeView - Part 2 - set alignment and headers?
  3. How to display a 2D array in GtkTreeView - Part 3 - with alternate row colors?
  4. How to display a 2D array in GtkTreeView - Part 4 - format cell content?
  5. How to display a 2D array in GtkTreeView - Part 5 - get user selection?
  6. How to use GtkCellRendererCombo - Part 1 - setup?
  7. How to use GtkCellRendererCombo - Part 2 - process combobox?
  8. How to use GtkCellRendererCombo - Part 3 - process user selection?

User reviews   Average user ratings:    2.0   (from 3 users)
  1. vaab
    January 06, 2008 6:00am
    Not working everywhere

    Please note that a copy/paste do not display exactly as your snapshot : the remaining space under the last row of data in the table appears in white. I'm under linux, php-gtk2 v2.0.0beta .

    Note that there also a incoherent mention in the solution part : you mention modify_bg, and in the code you are using modify_base.

    So far, I didn't found any solution to get a background to a GtkTreeView. (I tested modify_*, on all states on a GtkTreeView).

    The only solution that seems to be acceptable is to go for GtkStyle :

  2. vaab
    January 06, 2008 6:29am
    ... following

    your comments are broken :
    - it is my name that is displayed actually, and if no cache is in place, it doesn't refresh dynamically on profile change.
    - my php code was cut out (because of bad characters ?).
    - i can't edit my previous message.
    - i can't post a new comment because there's a 10 minutes lock against flood filter.

    Here are my 3 lines which allows background color for GtkTreeView... :

    $style = new GtkStyle();
    $style->base[Gtk::STATE_NORMAL] = GdkColor::parse("#DE0004");
    $my_widget->set_style($style);

  3. kksou
    January 06, 2008 6:17pm

    Hi vaab,

    Yes, it should be GtkWidget::modify_base(). Have updated the article. Thanks.

    I just tried the above sample code on two linux installations.

    This one on debian:


    This one on redhat:


    Both seems ok.

    I know some cvs versions of the php-gtk2 have problem displaying the background color of GtkButton. Think it might be similar problems.

    If you could try recompiling your php-gtk2, maybe it would solve the problem too...

    Regards,
    /kksou

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