Changing the selected item colour in a GtkTreeview using python

Question

I have a dialog which contains a pygtk.treeview for listing tasks by priority. Each row has the background colour set based on that priority, so for example the highest prio

Answer 1

Calling both ModifyBase and ModifyText worked for me. Calling just ModifyBase changes the text color to White

Example in GTK C#:

treeViewList.ModifyBase(StateType.Selected, treeViewList.Style.Base(StateType.Normal)); treeViewList.ModifyText(StateType.Selected, treeViewList.Style.Text(StateType.Normal));