pygtk: invert colors of a textview Widget

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I finally managed to change the background of a textview widget in pygtk. Turns out I needed to use the `widget.modify_base(gtk.STATE_NORMAL, gtk.gdk.Color(0, 0, 0, 0))` That results in the desired black background. Now, the rest of the problem... Now I want to change the text color to white. I have tried everything including `widget.modify_fg` and `widget.modify_text` and yet, Nothing seems to change the color of the text in this textview. Here is my code to the textview I have now ``` import gtk tv = gtk.TextView() tv.modify_base(gtk.STATE_NORMAL, gtk.gdk.Color(0,0,0,0)) tv.modify_text(gtk.STATE_NORMAL, gtk.gdk.Color(255,255,255,0)) ``` This results in the textview with the black bg... I want that... but the forground text needs to be white. Any ideas what I need to do?

Accepted Answer

Found the answer. It is much simpler than I was going.

```
# Textview with inverted colors
import gtk

tv = gtk.TextView()
tv.modify_base(gtk.STATE_NORMAL, gtk.gdk.color_parse('black'))
tv.modify_text(gtk.STATE_NORMAL, gtk.gdk.color_parse('white'))
```

That's all!!!

pygtk: invert colors of a textview Widget

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