GTK+ widget state not updated?

Question

In my application I'm trying to use GTK rc file to style the widgets:

style "boxstyle1"
{
    bg[ACTIVE] = { 0.0, 1.0, 0.0 }
    bg[NORMAL] = { 1.0, 0.0, 0.0 }
    bg[PRELIGHT] = { 0.0, 0.0, 1.0 }
}
widget "*.eventbox1" style "boxstyle1"

while the normal color is taken but the other states not. anyone experienced with this problem?

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EDIT:
When debug after widget initialized, widget->style gets all the values stored correctly.

I register state-changed event which never fires when 'state' changed. And in enter, leave, push, release events, I checked widget->state is always 0. Continue checking...

Same thing if I put for example a image in the eventbox, image->state never updated also...

I'm using GTK 2.16, use GtkBuilder to load xml

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so does gtk_widget_modify_bg(widget, GTK_STATE_ACTIVE, color) won't change for states besides 0 (NORMAL)

Answer 1

GtkEvent does not have any state: it is only a container without anything drawn by default (hence without anything that can be activated or prelighted).

If you are expecting to customize the children widgets of your event box, you should use proper glob syntax in the rc file:

widget "*.eventbox1.*" style "boxstyle1"

The newly appended .* matches all the children of eventbox1.