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Another glitch - background colour for a container gadget. SetGadgetColor works for all the other gadgets I use (but there are a lot I do not use).

My workaround was to create a textbox gadget (T) within the container (C).
Create T within C as soon as C is created and as big as C before any other ...

A great piece of work and well out of my league to do.

Any chance of completing the ContainerGadget case soon?

@Shardik

Thanks, that looks ideal. I haven't come across any other glitches as yet, just the Window Colour.

I'd also recommend that you use float or double when working with a formula unless all the intermediate values are guaranteed to be integers. With integers only, there can be trouble with rounding which can be hard to track down and may not appear in testing. It also vastly increases the range of ...

@mk-soft
Success!

The only additional code needed was
UseModule GtkGadgetColor

Modules, for all their merits, don't feature very much in my projects except (as here) where they have been imported from elsewhere. I had forgotten UseModule completely. :oops:

I appreciate your patience, thanks ...

@deeproot
Thanks for the support. I wondered about GTK2, but would very much prefer not to venture further away from Ubuntu Jammy out of the box than I have to.

@infratec

That's right, and I am really puzzled.

To start with, I rather lazily pasted the code from GtkGetGadgetColor.pbi into an existing project file just before the code which builds the window and called GtkGetWindowColor directly instead of PB's SetWindowColor. This executes but does not set ...

@mk-soft It is frustrating, but I can't find a bolt-on way forward on this. It would be a killer if I can't get a workaround to work. Is an integrated solution being worked on for PB?

@mk-soft Thanks, this looks like a well-trodden path.

I have no problem with SetGadgetColor, it is only SetWindowColor.

I've tried adding the code from the first post in the linked thread to one of my projects and it makes no difference. Should I be changing the call to SetWindowColor in some way ...

I have now jumped from PB5.70 in Ubuntu 16.04 to PB6.00 in Ubuntu 22.04 (reassured after my earlier thread https://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtopic.php?t=79746 )

I have only tried a few things so far, but the many projects I have at least start properly (ie run with F5 in the IDE) with no changes ...

@infratec, deeproot
Thanks. I am reassured and look forward to when I can get to grips with PB6, maybe next week.
@mk-soft
Thanks for the link. I'll dive into it when I can.. also next week I hope.

@infratec
Fair enough.
How would I know if I am using the asm backend? I have no embedded assembler code, for instance.

@mk-soft. I skipped 18.04 and 20.04 but with 16.04 beyond its support life, it was time. And PB has moved on, too. I understand from your reply that there's a boundary for PB ...

I have just installed Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish, succeeding 16.04 Xenial.

I have a number of projects coded and built with PB 5.70 in Xenial.

If I download the latest PB 6.00 (for Ubuntu 20.04, as 22.04 is not yet available) is it reasonable to expect to import the old code to the new IDE ...

Thanks, all.

@Nic
I only need unaccented Latin chars and (at least in the current project) have no TAB, CR or LF to handle, so my version is a bit shorter but the logic is essentially the same as your more general procedure. All characters can be treated identically by pretending there is a space ...

This would be simple to code if the answer is no, but is there a function which would take a string and "properise" it - ie turn the first letter of each word into upper case and leave the rest untouched?

For example

1234abc AbcD efg eNERgy
would become
1234abc AbcD Efg ENERgy