Re: is it possible to have a widget act as insensitive but look as it is sensitive?

[Yiannis <odysseus lost gmail com>]

On 28/12/05, Tristan Van Berkom <tristan van berkom gmail com> wrote:
>
> Yiannis wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > is it possible to have a widget (a toggle button in particular) act as
> > insensitive but look as it is sensitive. More specific is it possible to
> > have a toggle button act as insensitive once activated but look
> > sensitive, ie without the grey shade?
>
> Whatever you're doing, you're cheating ;-)


Yes, I know...., a necessity for visualisation reasons. :)

you can:
>      o Make copies of the GdkColor structs on widget->style.bg
> [GTK_STATE_NORMAL]
>        (or is it ACTIVE ?), you might also want the .fg, .base & .text
> members.
>        you'd want to do this post gtk_rc_parse().
>      o Use gtk_widget_modify_bg (widget, GTK_STATE_INSENSITIVE,
> sensitive_bg)
>        (and friends) to set the sensitive graphic state onto the
> insensitive state.


Cheers, with a first quick look to the documentation that will do the job...




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-- Yiannis