Description Anatoly Spektor 2012-09-19 11:52:44 EDT

GTK+ 3 uses GdkRGBA instead of GdkColor.

GdkColor is widely used through SWT, some classes have number of getter/setter functions that return GdkColor.

What is the expected procedure to substitute GdkColor with GdkRGBA? Should GdkRGBA has its own getter/setter methods ? If yes what is the naming policy of this methods, should this getter/setters be flagged that they are for Gtk+ 3 only ?

As an example of use of GdkColor here are methods from Control.java:

GdkColor getForegroundColor () {
	return getFgColor ();
}

GdkColor getFgColor () {
	int /*long*/ fontHandle = fontHandle ();
	OS.gtk_widget_realize (fontHandle);
	GdkColor color = new GdkColor ();
	OS.gtk_style_get_fg (OS.gtk_widget_get_style (fontHandle), OS.GTK_STATE_NORMAL, color);
	return color;
}

....etc

Implementation of GdkRGBA is needed because it is used by GtkStyleContext that replaces GtkStyle in Gtk3.Without GdkRGBA we cannot substitute this GtkStyle methods:

gtk_style_get_bg_gc
gtk_style_get_black_gc
gtk_style_get_dark_gc
gtk_style_get_fg_gc
gtk_style_get_light_gc
gtk_style_get_mid_gc
gtk_style_get_text_aa_gc
gtk_style_get_text_gc
gtk_style_get_white_gc
gtk_style_render_icon